Customer reviews from Garmin
Garmin - Tread 5.5" GPS GPS with Built-In Bluetooth - Black
Average customer rating
3.5
(28 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 28 reviews
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Customer Reviews for Garmin - Tread 5.5" GPS GPS with Built-In Bluetooth - Black
Customer Rating
1
How to find off road trails
on October 25, 2022
Posted by: Kenny&Donna
I purchased this with the thought of talking to everyone else who we ride with but not now. Extremely hard to use. I also purchased more maps and not sure y I did. This looks like a regular car gps when I was expecting one for off road use
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
5
What an excellent navigation unit, very versitle.
on November 8, 2022
Posted by: Our Overland Life
We have been using our Tread for over a year now, and it's a necessary piece of kit. It works well for on-road navigation and feature finding. The speed limit notifications have saved us from a ticket more than once. We love how we have it paired with our power switch to remotely turn on or off rock lights, scene lights, or ambient backlighting. We also paired it with the reverse camera, which, when mounted high, has the best range and clarity of picture of any reversing camera system we have used. It is fantastic to take it from the dashboard of our rig and mount it directly on our motos. The off-road navigation features are superb, especially if you add an SD card and download a birdseye view for the area you are exploring. The only thing we haven't used much is the group ride feature. Not because we don't want to, but because there just isn't anyone else in our group who has the units. it would be amazing if there were a tile you could hand out to have their GPS location show up on our device to be able to track the group from there. Other than that, this is one amazing piece of kit.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
3
It is good good features but could be better
on November 30, 2022
Posted by: Cash
I have had this about a month and I like it love the group ride and the radio like that you can plan a track like that you can track your ride I like it for a permanent gps that runs off of satellites what I don't like us that it could have more of the trails in Virginia and Tennessee where alot of the utv riding is I have downloaded maps on to it for that area but the plan a trip doesn't work right with them but overall a useful device I will probably Continue using it and my tablet with back country navigator on it together
Response from GarminBy Garmin, Outdoor, December 28, 2022
Thank you for your review and experience with the Tread. We would like to discuss this further over email. If you would please email us at product.support@garmin.com.
Thanks Jenny
Thanks Jenny
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
4
Good product wish it had better way to plan trips
on December 8, 2022
Posted by: Dcash
I love the garmin tread device I just wish they had a better way to go on the computer with other map card company to plan tracks
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
4
Mapping
on December 26, 2022
Posted by: Chuck76
Mapping and trails are not good in my area. Ouse it for mapping trails and as a backup
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
5
Best SxS gps EVER!!
on January 11, 2023
Posted by: RAIZIN’ CAIN
Garmin has gone above and beyond with the new Tread SxS!! It is very user friendly and extremely accurate! If you are looking for the best gps on the market, then look no further!! Garmin y’all killed it on this one!!
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
3
A step in the right direction
on April 7, 2023
Posted by: Rob J
We invested in these as a more functional alternative to Ride Command where you need cellular for the buddy tracking to work. This is my first garmin device and I've found it to be a lot less intuitive than some of the phone/tablet based apps. That said, I do believe it is probably superior once you learn how to configure it to your liking. I purchased it primarily for ATV riding. 3 in our group had them and we were excited about the group ride functionality. It is a little clunky/aggravating to get going. but once running it is pretty cool. The range is better than expected and worked reasonably well down on the hatfield mccoy trails this spring. Once you go around a mountain you are going to lose signal, but it is better than nothing and really pretty reasonable. Don't expect to split up and be able to use it to time rendezvous...you might get snapshots of where the other person is but not likely to have constant tracking. I did have the 18" antenna and I think that helped. No leaves on the trees yet though so I'm sure in summer that will hurt the range. We didn't use the voice communication yet, but at some point we will try to get the PTT working with our cardos for extended range. Pros: Bright screen, route planning, group ride Cons: battery life when not connected to power, limited range for group ride, garmin learning curve, "freezes" requiring a restart, relatively heavy radio mount (not an issue on sxs/atvs but would like it sleeker for moto).
Example...We had a group of 7 vehicles. I was in the lead with a tread (+18" antenna) and another was in the tail. 4 vehicles made it to the trail head, but the other 3 went missing. I didn't have a current location for the tail vehicle, but the last known location showed we they were at least on the right trail. Turns out one SxS had a flat. We didn't have the ability to communicate that, but at least I knew they weren't lost and I could likely backtrack and find them easily if needed.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin
Customer Rating
4
Works good
on May 8, 2023
Posted by: The Chubbster on fb
Works ok but needs more work. I bought this mainly for the group ride. Most of the time it kept up with other riders, Big thing it does not move map when a particular rider moved out of the screen so you constantly have to manually move screen to keep up with them. I could zoom out but then i loose detail of street names or rd names. This is not good when your driving and have to pay attention to the road. If you want to get more info of what is important to a driver than you can send me one with the radio and i will test it thoroughly with out prejudice. I am a group ride leader in my area and have up to 35 rigs with me and it is important to keep track of as many as possible. I've already sold others on this mapping device.
Written by a customer while visiting Garmin