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Red LED status light followed by no charging light at all

JCB1973 over 3 years ago

I’ve seen a handful of similar reports on these forums - my 10 month old Varia 515 first showed a red status light when charging, then stopped showing any light at all. Will be a warranty return.

I will miss it, it’s one of my favourite bike things!!

0 Andy-Edridge over 3 years ago

I've just had my 4th RTL515 give me the red light of death and will not charge, 3 replacements from Garmin and now this new device purchased in September 2021 as a backup for the last one that failed.

Not impressed with the quality coming out of Garmin at the moment.

0 3109324 over 3 years ago

Thankful for the little by little useful exercise. Has conclusively the ordinary impact!

AlaskasWorld

0 1402312 over 3 years ago

I purchased two Garmin Vario RTL 515s from Bike tires Direct approximately 16 months ago. My spouse's unit will not take a charge after using it a maybe 10 times. I called Garmin and they refused to do anything for me because "the one year warranty has lapsed" other than to let us purchase a "reconditioned" unit for half price with the unit having a 90 day warranty. Now why would I pay ANYTHING to Garmin for a unit with a 90 day warranty, after having a virtually brand new unit go bad after 10 uses? More precisely: Why would I pay Garmin to screw me a second time?

EDIT: Within 10 minutes of posting I got a message from Garmin claiming that my comment was SPAM, and was slated to be removed. Clearly a Garmin employee is tasked to keep complaints off of this site. Bui what else would I expect from this company?

0 seilogramp over 3 years ago in reply to 1402312

Varia RTL515 won’t stay on. Was repeatedly disconnecting, now won’t even stay on longer than 4 secs it’s fully charged. I’ve deleted it, reset it x times - Varia Series - Cycling - Garmin Forums