SATELLITE NAVIGATION BLOCKED BY WINDSCREEN.

jazzhooves · Post by **jazzhooves** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 12:06 am

I have just had a Blaupunkt Satellite Nav System fitted to my car and am finding that the SATNAV aerial does not pick up a signal inside the car. Does anyone know what the windscreen is constructed of? is there a metallic content or film.
The only way i can get the system to recognise my location is by putting the receiver on the roof of the car.......

Leigh :rolleyes:

gaia · Post by **gaia** » Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:20 am

Yes, windscreen has metal content.

You can place the aerial on the windscreen where there are little dots or if you search the forum there's a post from someone who fitted the aerial under the air intake on the bonnet which they say worked fine.

clarelee · Post by **clarelee** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:48 pm

I have a blaupunkt DX-V travelpilot fitted in my CC and I have the antenna mounted just under the bonnet vents (2 zip ties) and this works well, I previously had it in the centre of the upper side of the bonnet about 6" down from the top and this gave almost a constant reception of 8 sats, with it fitted under the bonnet vents I get a fairly constant 7 sats.

I tried it where the toll card spaces are beside the rear view mirror and found that this didn't work too well at all with an adv of 5 sats.

clarelee · Post by **clarelee** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 3:49 pm

I have a blaupunkt DX-V travelpilot fitted in my CC and I have the antenna mounted just under the bonnet vents (2 zip ties) and this works well, I previously had it in the centre of the upper side of the bonnet about 6" down from the top and this gave almost a constant reception of 8 sats, with it fitted under the bonnet vents I get a fairly constant 7 sats.

I tried it where the toll card spaces are beside the rear view mirror and found that this didn't work too well at all with an adv of 5 sats.

jazzhooves · Post by **jazzhooves** » Wed Dec 03, 2003 11:21 pm

After a lot of jigging around, I have put the receiver on the roof! Yes. As it is magnetic, I have run the cable up the roof pillar and across and it sits under the roof radio aerial. Excellent reception and looks ok.
The cable is not on view and it has solved the problem.

Thanks for your advice... I had a top installation guy from Toad fit the unit and he claimed that the windscreen did not have any metal content, as he had fitted one before!!! Ahhhhh professionals.. they know everything.

clarelee · Post by **clarelee** » Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:28 pm

I remember their being a post on this site where the guy fitted it under the main instrument cluster hood and he said that this worked fine for him but it definately didn't work for me.