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davem
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Sat nav and a heated front screen
« on: Jun 27th, 2006, 2:45pm » |
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24v Cosworth has a heated front screen. Has anyone tried one of these portable sat nav systems, Tom-tom etc? as there are warnings around that the heated front screen (with embedded wires) may prevent the sat signal?
Anyone use a portable satnav in a Cosworth?
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Dave
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #1 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 3:54pm » |
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People do use these systems in the scorpio, Eric has installed the Tom Tom 300.
http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/tomtom.htm
I think you have to put the aerial to the side of the screen where the wires do not actually run across.
Hope this helps 
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Kjetil S
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #2 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 3:56pm » |
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I don't know about the heated front screen, but I have a GPS aerial behind my heated rear screen, and I generally get a good reception with 8-10 satellites.
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #3 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 4:04pm » |
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I use a portable on the front screen and never had any reception problems at all
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bizzay1
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #4 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 4:31pm » |
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I use a tomtom one and no problems at all
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #5 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 5:02pm » |
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Same here, ive run a tom tom with no problems
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #6 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 5:06pm » |
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I use either a medion PDA or a Garmin Sat Nav both without ANY problems and NO external aerial on either.
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #7 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 6:14pm » |
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I use an XDA IIs pda with a GPS aerial with no problems at all in both the estate and saloon, Both have heated screens.
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #8 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 8:25pm » |
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i use a hp pda with tom tom on the front dash no problem
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #9 on: Jun 29th, 2006, 8:54am » |
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I use a ford built in travelpilot system and have the antenna mounted on the rear shelf on top of one of the speakers and never had an issue
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Re: Sat nav and a heated front screen
« Reply #10 on: Jun 30th, 2006, 5:17pm » |
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garmin and medion also worked fine
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