TomTom Go 700 useless in a RRC with heated screen!

It is the heated screen, as you suggested the only answer is an outside receiver.

Rob

Heated screen. I've got a seperate aerial for my Garmin Quest which sits in the bottom corner of the screen where there are no wires.

John

You can get external antennas for tomtoms

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Nige

I've got one. Used it in the previous Disco in the corner of the screen where there are no elements, works a treat. Don't think I need it now, drop me a mail!.

Andy

I have one of the old Tom Tom's and use it with our Sierra which has a heated screen and it works fine does not seem to be any difference from the car to my works van which does not have a heated screen, but all the same they are great aren't they ?

Rich

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Odd, never had an issue in my Disco with heated screen? However, an external antenna will resolve the issue. Or wait for the enxt generation. The new TomTom ONE has a SiRFstarIII receiver which is not affected by heated screens, athermic windscreens etc. Doubtless the current GO's will be replaced by models with the SSIII chipset in due course.

Bit late now, but where in Barnsley?

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Our Rangie Classic & Disco had big issues with GPS Mouse. Had to use the sunroof on the Disco.

Lee D

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P38 and Garmin GPS12. Never a problem - just took a bit longer to acquire.

Just bought a One - quite impressed so far, but I've found one oddity I was wondering if you'd noticed.

It's rigged to download traffic and weather information using my mobile as a GPRS modem over Bluetooth every 15 minutes whilst en-route. If for whatever reason my phone's out of coverage (Happens quite a bit on the M62/18) then about 10 seconds after it fails to talk to the server then the unit reboots.

Have you seen this with your test unit at all? It's caused me some rather spectacular detours due to doing so 200 yards before some complicated junctions and not coming back until I've overshot.

P.

I'm toying with idea, it would have been useful on Friday to dive off down the backlanes to get around the closed bit of the A71 whilst they pulled a lorry out of a field. What any GPS must do is have full 7 digit postcode entry and auto rerouting. It would be nice to be able to put proper OS maps, of selected areas, at 1:25,000 scale into it as well.

How much does that cost? The sub to the service and how much data is shifted every 15mins? I have a Trafficmaster YQ but with an expired key. With the Tom Tom service can you see the national road conditions and decide your route or departure time accordingly? Being able to watch the traffic build and die on the YQ is very useful and being able to see conditions a hundred or more miles away allows you to choose which side of the country to travel down or to stay on a particular road, or not, way in advance of the trouble.

I haven't because it's a royal PITA transferring a Traffic Sub from one device to another but I'll make enquiries and let you know. The OS is essentially that of the GO and I've never had that issue on any of mine but we'll see.

The subscription is Euro 59.95 for one year (UK) and the data is minimal, an update poll consumes about 4-5k, update frequency is user definable too.

The data is supplied by iTIS who provide TMC data for all UK feeds, it's OK, sometimes poor but often better than nowt!

Ah - in which case you may be interested in the fact that the retail versions come with a months free trial of the Traffic service :)

P.

40 quid or thereabouts. Plus, on my tarrif, about 12p a poll for iffy data. Think I'll get a new YQ key...