TomTom

I have inbuilt sat nav in the wife's clio. I think it is awful and potentially dangerous as it doesn't give the warning about changing lane until it is usually too late.
In other cars, I have always used Tom Tom with my very old TT Go 300. One of the first devices. It has been fantastic. So useful.
It is now obsolete, no maps are made for it as it's memory is very small. There are ways of overcoming this apparently, so one rainy day, I shall see what I can do.

My old Tom Tom was crap at picking up a signal, I could drive for half an hour before it started working, it drove me insane. Eventually, I bought a cheap Garmin and it works brilliantly. For some reason, when I've used my Samsung phone as a sat nav, it uses the battey to such an extent it is flat in less then an hour and if I have it on charge whilst using the mapping function, it gets hot.

Col

dog-man said:

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.

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We have tried a new Garmin and a new TomTom and neither would pick-up a proper signal. It's not the heated windscreen because we have tried it in a freelander without a heated screen. Is there anything else in a freelander that would block the signal. Never had this problem in 11 years in any other vehicle.

Black Abbot said:

We have tried a new Garmin and a new TomTom and neither would pick-up a proper signal. It's not the heated windscreen because we have tried it in a freelander without a heated screen. Is there anything else in a freelander that would block the signal. Never had this problem in 11 years in any other vehicle.

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You don't have a cheap dash cam fitted do you? Mine played havoc with the radio.

Col

Try the sat nav when stationary outside the car to see if it can pick up satellites. If yer in a city next to large buildings it may struggle.