User Review: Garmin Edge 305

Garmin Edge 305
Above: The current Edge 305, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed April 1, 2007 by Glen Humphrey

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Price Paid: $300

I have had the 305 for about two months.

I have the problems with the altitude, grade and heart rate.

The grade will vary form +50 to –40% on grades that I know are 6%. The total altitude gain will be 200% off. I have exported the data to a third party piece of software and the altitude information is correct there so this problem is most likely in their PC software.

The heart rate seems to display correctly on the unit, but is all over the place on the PC software.

I have been in touch with Garmin by web support, they gave me some basic trouble shooting info like reset the unit, re-load the firmware. None of this what made any difference?

I have an older unit (201) and I rode with both of them, the old unit preformed just fine, the 305 was all over the place.

Garmin has given me a RMA#, I don’t have much hope that they will fix anything after reading all the stuff on this page.

It is very frustration to read that others are having the same problems I have, when I talk to Garmin support they act as if they have never heard the problems before.

If I had known the depth of problems with this unit I never would have purchased it.