Tuno wrote:
Have you even *asked* the factory how long it would take for them to
repair it?

I sent my LX5000 to them in June 2004 and had it back in time for the
Region 9 contest a month later. The unit I got back had the same
serial number but appeared to be a brand new unit. I was very pleased
with that service and have stuck with the LX line ever since.

~ted/2NO
It is probably the internal battery - which will break the electronic seal to
replace - but the 5000 may be different to the Colibri and LX20 which I am
familiar with. I suggest you send a message to support at LXnavigation .si and
ask Crtomir and company.

Never had the LX guys take longer than three days to repair anything for me.

I also had the experience of getting the same casing back with a brand new
innards. That was on a 1998 LX20 that they could reasonably have told me was
obsolete... They charged me 100 euros for the repair!.

The biggest cost and time was the airfreight courier service (about USD100).
It's EEPROM died on Sunday, had it back the next Friday. Effectively brand new,
can't have been in their possession longer than a day.

Cheers
Bruce