Cars with heated front screens

MarkHewitt · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject: Cars with heated front screens

I'm thinking of getting a car which has a heated front screen (heated, not reflective)

Does anyone have any experience of these and using the TomTom MKII GPS? Does it get any signal at all or just slightly degraded?

At the moment my GPS gets good reception just sitting down by the gearstick.

westentertainer · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:11 pm Post subject:

my mate has a citroen picaso cant get fix other than a wired remote reciever that he places on roof

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:22 pm Post subject:

peterc10 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject:

As I understand it heated front screens are not a problem - it is the special coating on some reflective glass which is.

alix776 · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject:

a freind of mine has a range rover with a heated front screen and gets a fix through using his old navman 100 bt gps
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Pocketgps · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

My other half CoPilot

has a Mondeo with a heated front screen and the gps works fine, even sitting on the passenger seat.

MarkHewitt · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:35 pm Post subject:

martike · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 02, 2005 Posts: 194

I use a PDA with built-in GPS antenna hanging on the dashboard for navigation. I use it in my Jaguar with a heated screen and in my wife’s Volvo without a heated screen. GPS signal reception is just the same.

phile · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:17 pm Post subject:

I also have a MOndeo with a heated front screen and have no problems
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shughie · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:25 pm Post subject:

hi westentertainer,
I have a Picasso with reflective screen, tell your friend to put the gps on the little window at the side of the dash, works no probs for me.
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Bornagainfishing · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2006 Posts: 2

Mark,
I have a Mondeo which has a heated front screen. To run my Sat Nav I use a Holox BT-321 Bluetooth receiver. This is the very latest GPS receiver and will work indoors, under your car seat, in your pocket, in the glovebox, infact - I have yet to find a situation where it will not find a fix. The receiver has 32 channels so it is future proof (only 28 satalites up there at the moment) and I normally get at least 5 satalites fixed. I bought mine from Ebay, it cost £40 plus postage. I ignored the buy now price of £56.99 and made an offer of £40 which was accepted.
Hope this helps.
Brian

shughie · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject:

To help avoid any more confusion, heated screens are not the problem... heat REFLECTIVE screens block the gps signal. I have read many posts which seem to confuse the two types of screen, so I hope this, in some way prevents such confusion.
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Boomer · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 26, 2005 Posts: 18

I own 2 cars - one with reflective screen and one without. I'm using Tom Tom ONE with internal receiver.

On the heat reflective screen it can take a full 5 mins before you get a signal. The signal will start on 1 bar - and could take another 5 mins before it gets to 4 bars. Sometimes when driving the bars can drop back to 2-3, but normally there at 4. Even so it's not a real concern, and has always got me where i'm going.

On the normal screen (other car) the Tom Tom takes about 30 seconds to get 5 bars, and it's full signal from there onwards.

xtraseller · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: peugeot 206

We have 2 peugeot 206SWs and my old Navman iCN630 just didn't like it. Could take anything from 10 secs to 10 mins for a fix. Then would hold it for anything from a minute to an hour, so was a problem sometimes

Got the screen replaced in one of them, which solved the problem

Now have the Garmin Nuvi 300 with it's new GPS Chipset, and seems to work great in both models, without any issues (although likes a few more seconds to get initial fix standing still in the reflective screen car)

Andrew83 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 18, 2005 Posts: 8

I have a Ford Focus with a heated front screen and are using TomTom Navigator 5 Bluetooth without any problems - I certainly dont need the external aerial that TomTom advise for vehicles with heated front screens. Hope this helps.

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