Is my tomtom go broken?

MancunianLee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 06, 2005 Posts: 4

Bought a tomtom go for the wife today and it doesnt seem to work Sad

We have programmed an adress in and it constantly searches for a signal and doesnt find one, we drove up onto the nearest large hill, drove near enough into manchester city centre and we live in the suberbs and still cant get a signal.

it just flashes up "waiting for valid GPS signal" i know the manual says it can take some time to find a signal but we waited for around an hour on each location Sad

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Have you tried taking it out of the car where you can get a good view of the sky for a few minutes?

MancunianLee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 06, 2005 Posts: 4

yup, its now sat on my window.

If it only works outdoors though and not in my car thats pointless!!

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:17 pm Post subject:

You probably have a heat reflecting windscreen, and if so you will either have to get an external aerial, or relocate the TTG in the car.

First thing to try is to mount it next to the door pillar on the windscreen. You might get enough signal coming through the side window, and the edge of the windscreen.
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MancunianLee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 06, 2005 Posts: 4

Hi

I have an MG ZR which doesnt have a heated screen and its now sat on a wall outside and not finding a signal, how long should it take normally?

sparkey · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:23 pm Post subject:

Hey mancunianLee

Can you tell us which car you have? as oldboy says you May have a heat reflecting windscreen if you can't relocatein car it will cost another £40 for external aerial

sparkey · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject:

Think warm up time is abt 40 -45 second bit slow on last thread Laughing Out Loud

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

MancunianLee · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 06, 2005 Posts: 4

Thanks guys, but i think its dud Sad

Been at my mother in laws Crying

and had the unit on top of my car looking for a signal for a good 45 minutes and it didnt even find one sat, will be taking it back tomorrow. the guy at PC world told me they have had a lot of people taking them back recently too Sad

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