Product Description
An RV adventure is more than an ordinary car trip. Which is why you need more than your car GPS. The RVND was designed to meet the unique challenges of driving an RV with award-winning routing and tools that help you plan, prepare, and enjoy the ride. Choose your vehicle from 11 different RV types, including Class A, fifth wheel, and travel trailer. The RVND accounts for propane restrictions and even right- or left-hand turn preferences. Or switch to car mode for everyday use. Free lifetime maps subscription included.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2716 in GPS or Navigation System
- Brand: Rand McNally
- Model: 528007084
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.25" h x 10.00" w x 7.00" l, 2.75 pounds
- Display size: 7
Features
- RV-specific routing, customized for your vehicle - choose from 11 different RV types
- All-new design featuring easy-grip hardware, brighter screen that adjusts for low and strong light, and upgraded speaker
- Wi-Fi - Connect to a wireless hotspot or mobile access point on your smartphone to receive live weather data
- Weather - Dynamic weather data, including current and forecasted information for your current location, destination, and anywhere along your route. Choose from 10 different live map overlays to display important information for RVers, such as wind speed and precipitation
- Video input - For back-up or rear view cameras; compatible with a range of cameras for flexibility in display
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
51 of 51 people found the following review helpful.
By David W Morgan
You can read the ads for what it does. There are a lot of add-on things for this GPS that are specific to RV'ers. I have had this unit for a week, and have not yet had the chance to take it on a long trip. Most of the things it does very well. I updated the unit and maps on line a few days ago. The weather information is nice, as well as all the information it gives you when you are driving down the road.
I have deducted a star for a couple of reasons, and I initially as going to rate it only three stars.
First, it runs some form of Windows for an operating system. So it can lock up, and did it once to me within the first 4 hours of pushing buttons learning to use it. The screen display when it stopped working was obviously Windows. I had to power it off, then back on, and it restarted OK. There is also a tiny 'reset' switch on the back that might come in useful if it locks up solid. The unit is sometimes slow to respond to screen clicks, as has been mentioned in reviews of previous models. It is slow enough that sometimes you don't know whether it is responding or not, even though you heard a click when you touched the screen. Once you have your route entered and you are on the road, it is not slow in its screen updating.
The biggest issue I have with the unit is putting a route into it. If you just tell it to go from your current location to a destination, that works fine. If you want to plan a route between two points away from where you are, it is a little more difficult, and the documentation does not tell you how.
With a multi-leg route, so far I have not been able to find a way to verify what the exact route will be. You can look at the first leg, only it is highlighted in the normal map view. You and zoom and scroll on it, but none of the subsequent legs are shown on the map, so you don't know what the routing is. There is one slide out menu that lets you choose to look at the whole trip, but you can't zoom in on it, so you really can't see the route it has planned. You can't look at any of the legs after the first one in the map. The only way that I can see that you will see the second leg is to drive to the beginning point of that leg. That's not practical for planning a route at a remote location.
I originally gave it three stars, but changed it to four. It really only fails when you want to define a route. I have tried for many hours to enter a route across Paradise, CA from the road up from Chico to my wife's aunts house across town. I cannot force it to take the route I would normally take, but then forget after two years. I really would like it to remember that. It chooses a route a different route. There are two routes to get to where she lives, and I know from experience that all GPS units use the same data from city, county, state sources, and both routes will be wrong. They think there are streets that do not exist. I know where those are, been down that already, and have marked them to never be used. That worked.
Regarding the routing, from what I have seen so far, it won't normally err on the side of taking you off the highways. It seems to keep you on the major roads as much as possible, sometimes more than I would normally choose. That is better than the opposite. I bought a different manufacturer unit when my Nuvi died a month ago. It routed me on so many side streets on a recent trip to southern California that I hated it by the time I got home, and it went back to Costco.
The downloadable user manual that comes with this unit explains the functions of all the menu items. It really does not tell you how to accomplish tasks, such as creating a nice multi-leg route. That takes a lot of time trying things to see what works. While I am frustrated right now that I can't enter and view a multi-leg route across town, I think it will be a lot better when on the road and all the other features come into play. I think I will know where the trucks stops or Wal-Marts are before I see them in my rear view mirror after just passing the exit. That will be good.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
By David Shinnick
We've had no routing problems with it. The screen is easy to see except in direct sunlight (understandable). I think my only complaint/suggestion is to make the screen more configurable. It's a bit cluttered right now and, for example, *why* do I have to take up valuable screen real estate with the posted speed and my actual speed? Especially my actual speed; that's why I have a speedometer. I don't want to see it on my GPS.
It does take longer to boot up than my Garmin. When I shut off vehicle power my Garmin asks me whether to sleep or stay awake. Something like that here would be nice.
The POI database seems very good. Overall we decided to keep it and I would recommend it to others.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
By Jerry D. Morris
I purchased the RVND 7710 when it first came out. For over a year it was a love/hate relationship. Reluctantly, I
bought the new 7720 hoping some of the issues that I had we're fixed. I absolutely LOVE this GPS. All the things I hated are not issues with this new unit and now I am one happy camper. Highly recommended! And, even though the RVND 7710 is much cheaper don't buy it ! This is the one, hands down!!!
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