Garmin Colorado 300 - Whats wrong with the compass

I'm running ver 2.30. I have selected a waypoint and navigate to this point. The compass setting is automatic. The waypoints position is N 59° 43.220' E010° 49.793' The data fields are correct they show bearing 183° and 14 km, however the red arrow points to about 30°.
	I let the unit go through the shortcut round and back to compass. It's no red arrow at all. Press options and select Course poitner. This seems good. Switch back to Bearing pointer. The bearing is still 183° but the pointer shows NW (or ca 310°).
The red arrow seems to show a direction in random. I'm not sure when this occurred for the first time, but I think it was after I had turned of the compass once and then set it to automatic.

Support mail to Garmin 11/2-2007:

KnowledgeBase: garmin
Subject: Colerado 300 Compass problems
Message Body: I have problems with the compass. Sometimes the bearing pointer is missing, and somtimes it points in a wrong direction. Se http://www.milvang.no/gps/colorado-300/colorado-compass.html
SoftwareVersion: 2.30

Answer from Garmin 16/2-2007:

Dear Otto,
Thank you for contacting Garmin(Europe)Ltd.
This would appear to be a software related issue, i would adivse that you go to www.garmin.com/webupdater with your GPS connected to your computer and download and run the webudpater, this should update the software and is likely to resolve the problem.

Kind regards
Andrew Stead Garmin (Europe) Ltd

Mail to Garmin 16/2-2007:

Hi!

I already have ver 2.3 on the unit (and GPS sw 2.6)
I still have the problem.

Otto

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