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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26445 on: 19 June 2024, 20:55:43 »

Got a little further in locating my annoying intermittent buzzing noise.  Need a grown up to check the schematics now...
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26446 on: 20 June 2024, 20:37:38 »

Need a grown up to check the schematics now...
Thanks Mr DTM :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26447 on: 20 June 2024, 20:39:18 »

Not that I understand why it's happening.  So maybe it's not that - I need to go for a drive to see if the annoyance is still there.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26448 on: 20 June 2024, 20:42:23 »

I was impressed with how the accuracy of the navigation system is with the GPS antenna disconnected.  Over 30 miles driven, and its still cock-on :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26449 on: 20 June 2024, 22:37:05 »

I was impressed with how the accuracy of the navigation system is with the GPS antenna disconnected.  Over 30 miles driven, and its still cock-on :)
Must admit, in a World that's obsessed with using their phones for navigation I thought I was alone in still using the built in Nav's on our cars!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26450 on: 21 June 2024, 08:56:22 »

I still use the factory one in the S Class,.but use the phone in the Bini/hire cars as they have Android Auto facilities.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26451 on: 21 June 2024, 08:56:30 »

Very rarely use satnav, don't go to many places that I've never been before, had our 20 year old grandson on a trip out with  us a few weeks ago & he just couldn't understand why I didn't need satnav at all.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26452 on: 21 June 2024, 10:05:55 »

I was impressed with how the accuracy of the navigation system is with the GPS antenna disconnected.  Over 30 miles driven, and its still cock-on :)

A while back my shark fin aerial lost its bearings completely and because I needed it fixed quick for a trip away I replaced it *temporarily*  ::)  with a plug in dash aerial box plugged into the MMI system in place of the fin connection. I just placed it randomly under the dashboard behind the MMI and it worked a treat.  :y
Unlike yours, when mine was unplugged, the car thought that it was in Milton Keynes when it was parked on my driveway, so approximately 25 miles out.   ;D

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Yep, it’s still like that to this day.  ;D  It’s finding 12 satellites, which is probably as good as the shark fin, considering that the box is just thrown somewhere under the dashboard. Only issue really is when I do a code scan I get an open circuit fault for the shark fin but I can live with that.  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26453 on: 21 June 2024, 10:16:59 »

Very rarely use satnav, don't go to many places that I've never been before, had our 20 year old grandson on a trip out with  us a few weeks ago & he just couldn't understand why I didn't need satnav at all.
It's not so much for the guidance, as, like many i've spent all my driving life driving around the Country for work, it's more for the traffic / road information / speed limit functions that I find useful
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26454 on: 21 June 2024, 10:22:38 »

Very rarely use satnav, don't go to many places that I've never been before, had our 20 year old grandson on a trip out with  us a few weeks ago & he just couldn't understand why I didn't need satnav at all.
It's not so much for the guidance, as, like many i've spent all my driving life driving around the Country for work, it's more for the traffic / road information / speed limit functions that I find useful
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Got to admit that the traffic info on the radio has come in useful on the odd occasion.👍
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« Reply #26455 on: 21 June 2024, 13:21:21 »

I was impressed with how the accuracy of the navigation system is with the GPS antenna disconnected.  Over 30 miles driven, and its still cock-on :)

Dead reckoning working then
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26456 on: 21 June 2024, 13:23:51 »

Yep, it’s still like that to this day.  ;D  It’s finding 12 satellites, which is probably as good as the shark fin, considering that the box is just thrown somewhere under the dashboard. Only issue really is when I do a code scan I get an open circuit fault for the shark fin but I can live with that.  :)

Shark fin will see more and with a higher signal strength but, you only need 4 or 5 in sight to get a half decent position.

I suspect the shark fin antenna has a DTC resistor in it so it would be possible to get rid of that but adding the same.

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26457 on: 21 June 2024, 15:50:40 »

Yep, it’s still like that to this day.  ;D  It’s finding 12 satellites, which is probably as good as the shark fin, considering that the box is just thrown somewhere under the dashboard. Only issue really is when I do a code scan I get an open circuit fault for the shark fin but I can live with that.  :)

Shark fin will see more and with a higher signal strength but, you only need 4 or 5 in sight to get a half decent position.

I suspect the shark fin antenna has a DTC resistor in it so it would be possible to get rid of that but adding the same.

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In fairness, I’ve no idea how many it see with the shark fin, as I had no need to check until it went wrong but I agree, the line of sight alone is better for the shark fin.  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26458 on: 21 June 2024, 15:57:44 »

Two Rainsport 5's fitted to the front of the V70  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #26459 on: 21 June 2024, 17:39:39 »

I still use the factory one in the S Class,.but use the phone in the Bini/hire cars as they have Android Auto facilities.
Which uses the phone GPS.  Which then becomes a problem.
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