I have noticed an increasing number of more mature drivers(those who I suspect do not drive outwith the local area) with sat navs in thier car. Nowt wrong with that I hear you all shout......!

BUT the problem is they do not have them fitted at the foot of the windscreen or in the corner where they can be seen in peripheral vision No they are slap bang in the middle of thier field of view obscuring half the road and in my view damned dangerous. Can people not use common sense these days?

i had to read that carefully then i was about to say well where are you supposed to put them then blah blah. I agree i've seen more and more people with sat navs just under the rear view mirror makes me laugh tbh just think you knob.

I'm 20, for what it's worth, and have my satnav mounted on a weighted platform to the right of my instrument binnacle, instead of on the sucker cup on the screen itself. This means no unsightly marks on the screen, and it's out of my immediate field of vision. Works quite well

Well as one of those more "mature" drivers, mine is stuck in the bottom corner of the drivers side of the windscreen, so yah boo sucks!

And around here it seems to be the kids who have them in the middle!!

Sat Navs with those piddling sized screens and the suction screen mounts are a menace, no matter whose using them. The sooner sat nav is built into the dash or projected onto the windscreen the better. Did i see a corsa advert the other day with a screen unit built in where the radio should be ?

Nick

Phillips did use to to do aftermarket fit Sat Navs with a decent sized screen,but cost was about £1k . Wonder if the problem with middle aged blokes is eyesight - their distance vision meets/exceeds that required not to need glasses, but near vision starting to go down hill ( as it does in middle age) ,and they need the screen a distance away, so as not to have to get out readers and spoil distance vision .

My sat nag is fitted in the passenger side and has worked reliably for over forty years.She also makes great snacks & a decent cuppa for the longer trips-also very useful for spotting cheap fuel places .

Saw one last night on the M1 with the sat nav mounted in front of the passenge who was then telling the driver where to go

And had an open map book on there lap

i had to read that carefully then i was about to say well where are you supposed to put them then blah blah. I agree i've seen more and more people with sat navs just under the rear view mirror makes me laugh tbh just think you knob.

If you have a heat reflective windscreen then they have to go there, which is what you will find in the sat nav manual.

I agree it's not good though, but it might explain why you're seeing more.

If you have a heat reflective windscreen then they have to go there, which is what you will find in the sat nav manual.

I agree it's not good though, but it might explain why you're seeing more.

One of them was an elderly woman in a Kia 'Ceed. Heated windscreen?

I'll stick to the inbuilt compass in my head, occasionally use a map though. Hate satnav's, mobiles and other things hanging off the dash.

One of them was an elderly woman in a Kia 'Ceed. Heated windscreen?

heat reflective (eg keep you cool in summer) as opposed to heated. However as i said i do think common sense should be used.

I'm more dumfounded by the heap of **** satnav user, i.e. when the nav looks worth more than the car type thing.

I see loads of them round and often wonder if the car has gone any further than the local Tescos etc.

I use my head and if that fails I got nav on my phone which is back up.