GarminDrive™ 53 with Traffic, GPS Navigator, High-Resolution Touchscreen, Simple On-Screen Menus and Easy-to-See Map, Driver and Traffic Alerts

Bought this GPS in Nov 2024 and used it once in Jan 2025. It worked well. Pulled it out to see if any map updates are due since I have an upcoming trip. I attempted to do the updates which failed each time I tried. The GPS now shows a message "No detailed maps found on this device" What happened to the maps????? I've had other Garmin devices in the past never had this happen. Can't find a phone number to call for support. Totally disappointed with this device.5/2/2025 I am retracting the above review and giving 5 stars. After much research and testing I discovered the micro SD card in my device was damaged. Replaced the SD card and it works perfectly. So glad I did additional research.

Works great.

This replaced our old unit that died. It picks up the satellites better and it easy to use. The map directions are easy to follow, with accurate distance to turns. That gives you confidence to what street is coming up. I do enjoy looking up and knowing my speed and the posted speed at the same time. The old one had a little better layout on the screen.

I actually had a Garmin and it lasted five years Perfect. I cheaped out and bought a different item. I returned it right away, and then bought a new Garmin, which is what I should’ve done in the first place. It’s bright it’s accurate. It’s extremely functionable. It looks sleek. It does everything it needs to do. Make no mistake about it. Garmin is the best. Even in today’s society where a lot of people use their phones I rather use my phone to make phone calls and my GPS as a map. I use it in my car. I would not recommend any other product, except Garmin. And this is from somebody with years of experience using this product. Before this model, I had the 52. Unfortunately, they discontinued it. It has been five years however, to their defense. So I bought the upgraded 53. I am Very satisfied thank you

I had some grumbles with my old TomTom, so when it finally bit the dust, I was open to a new brand. Well, since TomTom and Magellan no longer make car GPSs, Garmin is our only choice now, anyway.The most important function for any GPS is to navigate. This one very frequently loses its satellite connection. The map freezes, and a banner says Lost Satellite Reception or Acquiring Satellites. I've gotten to driving locally with it turned on just so I can monitor this, and it occurs randomly and stays this way for many minutes at a time. Meanwhile, I've passed 50+ potential turnoffs. Because of this problem, this device is worthless.Even while this GPS is working, while driving on an interstate, it will frequently direct me to take an exit, then re-enter the interstate at the same exit. Maybe it was two feet shorter? A Garmin GPS I used in a rental car 20 years ago did this, but I thought that Garmin would have corrected that by now--wrong.Also, this thing occasionally loses its view settings, so the perspective changes drastically, and good luck figuring out how to get it back. Even switching places with my passenger the last time this happened, it took me at least ten frustrating minutes to figure it out. Very unintuitive.So bottom line, I do not recommend this device. However, all the competition is gone. The world wants us to rely on our phones for road navigation. I could live with that if I had a cell signal in all the wilderness areas I frequent, but that doesn't work either. Our technology has gone backwards.

Bought to replace old, outdated one that died. Works great, nice colors on map. Voice directions clear.

Eh, it's okay. Display is great, it's easy to read, organized layout, etc. Traffic feature is useless unless you want a device that tells you you're sitting in traffic after you're already in it. It doesn't seem to alter your route based on traffic, just tells you as you're pulling up to a line of cars that "there is currently traffic on your route". Thanks! I was wondering what all these cars were doing here? It also for some reason doesn't give you the fastest route even without traffic. I can set it take me somewhere I know the way to like my house or known business and it will send me in a direction that I know is not the fastest way to get there. And when I deviate from the path it's chose, it reroutes and my ETA updates to an earlier ETA than it had me on. So....yeah, it's okay. It will get you where you're going but not on the fastest route and I still pull out the Google Maps app on my phone to check for traffic.

I could use my smartphone for Navigation. Far prefer to use a Garmin GPS. We have three functional units. Once in awhile a shortcut isn’t helpful. Usually very good directions. Two in Florida vehicles and one at our vacation home vehicle. Several times the Garmin has given better directions than my smartphone. I also compare roads to a current Atlas driving map. If the map, Garmin and smartphone agree, great. I’ve retired three older Garmin GPS units. Early units were $100 and worked quite well. Current three units cost $150 to $199. Pleased to use Garmin, type in an address and not talk to a phone!