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Does anyone know why my TomTom Via135 is not receiving a signal in my 2013 Freelander 2. If I open the side window and put it outside it works. What is blocking the signal inside.
 
Play around with the position of it. You may get lucky.
I seem to recall that you can get an antennae for Tom Tom units to overcome this if need be.
 
My garmin nuvi has a fold out flat aerial at the back and works through a FL2 heated screen. See if yer sat nav has an optional plug in aerial which you could fix to the sunroof or a side window.
 
If my crappy old iphone can work just fine as a sat nav through my heated screen then surely a proper sat nav should also.
 
If my crappy old iphone can work just fine as a sat nav through my heated screen then surely a proper sat nav should also.
Tom Tom have a week receiver, probably to sell additional accessories. Garmin are designed to work with the HFS, so it's the sensible choice.
 
To be honest, with the quality of mapping available nowadays I'll stick with my phone which works a treat
 
To be honest, with the quality of mapping available nowadays I'll stick with my phone which works a treat

Google maps is better than Garmin or Tom Tom these days, so I don't bother with a separate sat nav in my Freelander these days. Our family car has nav anyway so no need to worry about it in that.
 
My F2 has factory sat nav fitted but its so user unfriendly when compared to the google mapping software. Why anyone would order a new car with it is beyond me.
 
I always thought SatNav was a waste of space.

First time I used it was when we went back to the UK a couple of years ago and were traveling round. The kids used Google on their phone and it did help us get to places, but was quite ropey and kept locking up and getting confused. So opinions not much changed.

Then we hired a Volvo XC in LA on a stop over on the way home and it was brilliant. We had no idea where we were going and the SatNav was very easy to use and worked perfectly - a million times better and a lot fewer rows than handing Mrs Grumpy a map!
 
I have used sat nav to get all around the uk. It takes loads of stress out of driving. I look at a map in advance so have a general idea of where i'm going. Also zoom out of the sat nav at the start to check i'm going in the right direction. Yer can't beat having a sat nav when yer in London and asked to travel half a mile south to a different site which includes getting across the Thames. Makes life so easy.
 
My F2 has factory sat nav fitted but its so user unfriendly when compared to the google mapping software. Why anyone would order a new car with it is beyond me.
The Discovery 3 nav wasn't great, when compared to Google maps.

Factory nav systems vary from vehicle to vehicle though. Our Mazda CX5 has quite a good system, which is adaptive depending on traffic ahead. It's pretty intuitive to use too. The only thing I'm not keen on is the same screen is also used for the stereo, vehicle settings and such. However the nav instructions are audible and displayed on the HUD too, so it's not a major problem if the screen being use to search audio files.
 
Yer can't beat having a sat nav when yer in London and asked to travel half a mile south to a different site which includes getting across the Thames. Makes life so easy
It does. I'm going up to Wembley at the weekend, for the England V Germany ladies football match.

I'm expecting the nav to make the journey a painless one.:)
 
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