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Navigation keeps indicating U-turn

This weekend I was navigating a course, which I shared with my wife. She loaded the gpx on her Wahoo, I had it loaded on my 530. We took a shortcut and after 500 m we were back on track. After this, my wifes Wahoo was fine, but my 530 kept indicating a U-turn for more than 5 km. Every 500 m the track was found again, and after recalculating a U-turn was indicating while the map was clearly indicating to go straigth on.

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0 Machoman over 4 years ago

u need to switch OFF the OFF COURSE warning. It's in the Course options.

0 etmbejo over 4 years ago in reply to Machoman

But I was ON the the course, so there was no reason to warn me. And for sure not so often.

Apart from the fact that this setting is a desaster to find, it was already off as well.

+1 Wongataa over 4 years ago

Don't let the device recalculate. Turn that off. If you go off course and don't recalculate when you get back on course the unit will notice and give navigations prompts as usual. If you let the device recalculate it will create a brand new route to your destination point which is highly unlikely to be the same as the one you planned.

0 mcalista over 4 years ago in reply to Wongataa

I agree - turn Recalculation to Off (or at least prompted).

0 tfidalgo over 4 years ago in reply to mcalista

Recalculation prompt is more annoying than Recalculation OFF.

0 etmbejo over 4 years ago

Switching a non-functional feature off rather is a workaround than a solution.

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago in reply to etmbejo

No one here can fix it. A suggestion of a workaround is all you can expect from here. It's also better than nothing.

0 dpawlyk over 4 years ago in reply to Machoman

Machoman said:
u need to switch OFF the OFF COURSE warning. It's in the Course options.

The off course warning doesn't effect this behavior.

0 tfidalgo over 3 years ago

Is this issue solved with v. 8.0?

0 UnhappyGarminUser over 3 years ago in reply to Wongataa

Wongataa said:
If you let the device recalculate it will create a brand new route to your destination point which is highly unlikely to be the same as the one you planned.

THIS! I have been looking for this! Thank you for confirming my suspicion.

Is there any way to have the re-routing NOT behave like this? Is it possible for the 530 or 830?
For example: I have read the 1030 plus has a feature where you can chose to re-route to the nearest logical point on the original route. Which is what every GPS device should do. I mean, I create routes based on the distance I want to ride, I always start and end at home. Why would I want it to re-route to the endpoint ( home ) when I am 1km in my ride and I have to go off-course because of road works... MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL!