Garmin Nuvi Safety Cameras For Garage

If you use a Garmin in-car GPS, there are much more interesting vehicle icons available than the few that appear within your unit's stock menu. In fact, you don't need to 'drive' a car at all. How about a fire truck or a football, or maybe a tank, a police car, or a motorcycle?

Customize your Garmin GPS device with a custom vehicle icon from the Garmin Garage. It's where Garmin posts files that users can use to upgrade the vehicle icon their device is using. These are freely available and can be downloaded without even needing a user account.

Every vehicle from the Garmin Garage is an ​SRT file that's stored in a ZIP archive. Below are instructions on where to go to download these files, how to open them and how to put the SRT file on the Garmin to change the vehicle icon.

How to Download and Install Garmin Vehicle Icons

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There is one place to access the Garmin Garage but two different ways to install the vehicle icon to your Garmin device:

Use the Garmin Communicator Plugin

This add-on is for your web browser so you can easily transfer the vehicle icon directly to your Garmin without having to download and extract the files manually.

  1. Install the Garmin Communicator Plugin.

  2. Visit Garmin Garage to see which vehicles are available.

  3. Select the Install Vehicle button to transfer the icon to your device.

Copy the SRT File to the Device

This method isn't as fluid but it's really not confusing either. Plus, it doesn't make you install a browser plug-in.

  1. Connect your Garmin device to your computer.

  2. Find the vehicle icon you want from Garmin Garage.

  3. Download the ZIP file to your computer.


  4. Extract the SRT file out of the ZIP file.

  5. Copy the SRT file to the /Garmin/Vehicle/ folder of the device.

How to Change the Vehicle Icon From Your Garmin

Now that you have the custom icon on your device, it's time to change the ride:

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  1. From the device, touch Tools.

  2. Choose Settings.

  3. Select Map.

  4. Then tap Automobile.

  5. Choose Vehicle to select your custom icon.

Garmin Nuvi Safety Cameras For Garage Door

School zone, speed and red light camera alerts are now de rigueur on portable GPS navigators. While Garmin's Nuvi range has an excellent alerting system, you need to be the Howard Carter of the internet to find them. We show you how, although we make no guarantees about avoiding Tutankhamun's curse.

As we discovered when we reviewed the Nuvi 260W and 760, Garmin has a very good safety camera warning system, which will alert you to upcoming red light and speed cameras, as well as school zones. There's a unique voice warning for each camera or zone type, a nice step up from the generic chime and visual warning offered on GPS devices from other makers.

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Unfortunately, these warnings don't come preloaded on any current Garmin Nuvi units — a careless oversight considering the brand is being marketed on its ease of use. To get these warnings you'll have to go to Garmin's website, find the special Points of Interest (POI) files and install them on your device. These files don't exactly fall out of the sky and into your lap, so we've prepared this quick step-by-step guide for you.

  1. Go to Garmin's Custom POI Downloads page.
    Note: If you have problems accessing the above link directly or get a 'Page Not Found – 404' error try the following steps instead. Go to the Garmin Australia website, select Australia from the 'Select Your Country' drop down box, click 'On the Road', scroll down and then click on 'Custom POI Downloads'.
  2. Download the POI files for speed cameras, red light cameras and school zones
  3. Unzip the .gpi files from each of those zip files
  4. Connect your Garmin to your PC or Mac via USB
  5. Go to your Garmin device, then to the 'Garmin' folder. If you see a folder named 'POI' go to the next step, otherwise create said directory
  6. Copy all the .gpi files that you've downloaded and extracted into the Garmin's 'POI' directory
  7. Disconnect your Garmin from your computer and — voila! — warnings for school zones, as well as speed and red light cameras.
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