Kin useless bit of kit :-(

[cantgetlost]

Kin Useless piece of kit.
We have the second GTM 11 now. have had long chat with the techy boys at Garmin who suggested wrapping the wire earial around the car arial feed as one of them had done.
The kin thing still received no signal. Taking the cable out of the car and wrapping the wire along the roof rail and wrapping 1/2 a metre around a redundant mobi phone earial got a green light and the thing back working.
The car has spent most of today around M4 / M25 in the south east and still loses the signal most of the time.
Unless somebody had any bright ideas I suggest not bothering to anyone hovering on purchasing. We even tried attaching the unit outside the car using the stub earial. Apart from a brief signal whilst driving over the Hogs back to Farnham that was a failure to.
:x

[SpeedCam]

Had a very similar situation today (Tuesday) travelling around the M25 towards Heathrow & M3, all the time I had a red LED. This was very strange as I know that my unit worked on Sunday, exactly the same route.

I was getting rather miffed by it all, and in the end I decided to force it to rescan and clear the table entries, this instantly fixed the problem, and from that point on I had a green LED.

Hope this helps.

[cantgetlost]

Its re scanned so many times it will need high melting point grease to stop itself grinding to a halt.
Maybe this nook of the southeast is a problem but we're well p''d off with the thing.
Any other help on what to attach aerial to so as to boost reception would be appreciated!

[swing]

[cantgetlost]

We had two brief connections today and then nothing again!

Thanks for the advice Swing, but can you or anyone else advise on where to find Fakra and splitter set-up that may work.

[cantgetlost]

Well it's still kin useless more or less.
Does not like the southeast area M25 for about 12 or so around or outside it.
Guildford, Windsor, Slough, Bracknell etc are just no signal areas it seems.
Cara aerial advice from Garmin still a failure even with new Aerial fiitted to Car.

Swing mentined Fakra connectors and splitter, can someone tell me where i can get them . PLEASE :o

[mrklaw]

if its any consolation, you might be saving me £100

I'm in Windsor and considering the 310D from halfords, as its a good bundle price (£399). But if the reception is bad round here I think I won't bother and just get the basic 310.

Then at least if it picks up I can just buy the GTM11

[cantgetlost]

Alleluja. praise the Lord or whoever our god is
Stopped at a car radio come sat nav fitting emporium, kindly gent went and got his techie fitter guy who wipped out a car radio aerial splitter that
has a Fakra type plug that fits the GTM 11.
Fitted in 2 minutes as the radio is a pull out job an a few seconds later i had first signal in the area, has worked pefectly now
Cost £22 8O
But now the thing is only kin useless without the add on

[swing]

[cantgetlost]

Have to say the fitter said it was last one that he had and that the supplier no longer supplied them.
The little beauty worked fine today

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