TomTom Bluetooth GPS

[gmdh555]

Hi,

Does this work okay in the 172? When I tried my handheld GPS inside the car I found it pretty tricky to pick up any satellites - only seemed to work around the non-metallized window at the front edge of the windscreen.

Where do you put your GPS receiver for decent results?

Cheers,

Gareth

 

[Pete]

Put it in the tray at the top middle of the dash above the display mine works find there. For better results try the rear side windows, does mean youll have to run power to them tho.

 

[24Seven]

I fix my tom tom go to the sunroof with the mouting bracket suction thingy it has. That works perfect until i get my external antenna in a week or so.

 

[Pete]

172s dont have sunroofs!

 

[Mike Wright]

If you have a heated front windscreen then you need an extra attenna which you plug into the GPS .

 

[24Seven]

In that case its an external antenna jobbie like mike said. Can pick em up for under 50 quid i think.

 

[Dansta]

how much r tomtoms?

 

[Day]

Got my Tomtom GO for £413... Comet (online) (£499 instore)

Anybody else been waiting for the UK delivery of the tomtom external aerials?

Suppliers should have them on or around the 27th October apparently.

 

[Dansta]

....... ill b stickin with the A-Z then. lol

 

[Pete]

Dan it can be done for a lot cheaper than that if you go for a Ipaq based solution.

 

[DazRsi]

do TomToms pic up speed cameras

 

[Pete]

Yup all the info you need is here:

http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/checkpoint.phphttp://www.pocketgps.co.uk/checkpoint.php

 

[tonk_172]

I just bought a pda with tom tom and the gps receiver works fine under the little square in the windscreen and i downloaded the speed camera software and so far all the cameras ive passed its picked them up and the satnav is spot on.

 

[Doigy]

Got mine the other day... It works fine...

http://erc.qmuc.ac.uk/cliosport/gallery/full/1098617812__DSCN0745.jpghttp://erc.qmuc.ac.uk/cliosport/gallery/full/1098617812__DSCN0745.jpg

http://erc.qmuc.ac.uk/cliosport/gallery/full/1098617851__DSCN0746.jpghttp://erc.qmuc.ac.uk/cliosport/gallery/full/1098617851__DSCN0746.jpg

 

[iwantaV6]

ive got the Tomtom hardwired Ipaq 2210 bundle. does anyone know if there will be an external antenna for this as i get some lag when taking bends - tomtom needs to catch up with me.

 

[Mike Wright]

Quote: Originally posted by iwantaV6 on 24 October 2004


ive got the Tomtom hardwired Ipaq 2210 bundle. does anyone know if there will be an external antenna for this as i get some lag when taking bends - tomtom needs to catch up with me.







Dont know if the 2 secs sat update can handle over £140 mph!.....Seriously though you can add a free gps tuning app to set the update to <2 sec update. I set mine up so it runs with 1sec updates and dont have any problems,