Hi,

 

I am interested in getting the Kodiaq L&K in the UK and I can see that it comes with a heated windscreen. Although I would like to have a heated windscreen I am wary that it could block the GPS signal of my satnav. I had a Ford several years ago with a heated windscreen and it blocked the signal. I know the car comes with a satnav but I like my own stand alone unit as well. I went to my local dealer to ask if they had a car with a heated windscreen I could test it with but they don't.

 

I know that it is more complicated if you are using the GPS in a mobile phone as the phones do not exclusively rely on the GPS to get a fix on where they are.

 

Does anyone have experience of this? 

 

Thanks

You will get tons of different answers.

My personal experience - i had 4 Mondeos in the past, all with heated windscreen and never had issues with GPS reception.

Skoda`s heated windscreen has different technology though - film layer instead on wires.

I have the heated windscreen - I haven't noticed any sat-nav issues on my phone.

This might be a really daft question... but what's wrong with using the car's built-in SatNav?

It isn't a daft question.

 

Two reasons. Firstly, my experience of in car sat navs has not been great so I would like the option of using my own. Secondly, my satnav also has a dashcam fitted which also uses the GPS.

Sat Nav with inbuilt dash cam? Interesting. What make and model is it?

 

I'd hope that the latest sat navs, especially those with premium features such as inbuilt dash cams would be utilising the latest GPS antenna's so the risk of it not working should be low.

 

Where abouts in Yorkshire are you? I'm in York, you are welcome to come and try it in my heated screen-equipped Kodiaq.

59 minutes ago, silver1011 said:

Sat Nav with inbuilt dash cam? Interesting. What make and model is it?

Snooper do one;

 

https://gb.snooper.eu/snooper-sc5900-dvr-car-navigation-with-hd-dash-cam.html

 

You can add a dash cam option with Sygic satnav:

 

https://eshop.sygic.com/en/

My Garmin works perfectly in both cars with both varieties of heated screen.

 

The additional functionality (inc. speed), better visibility, ability to plan routes on pc and download post-trip data swings it for me with the stick on unit.

 

I play with the built in unit sometimes on long trips just to have a supplementary Big Picture, but generally the central screen is better used for other things.

Thanks for all the advice. it is much appreciated.

 

I have a Garmin DriveAssist 50 which I like although it sometimes gets a bit confused about the traffic.

Have heated screen on mine and never seemed to have a GPS issue 

Can you not buy an exterior booster cable for your unit? I bought one off eBay for my old Navman years ago. Worked a treat when we used to use it in my wife’s fiesta. Simply plugged it into the nav then traced it out through the door seal. 

 

 

Edited 10 November, 20187 yr by courty
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does having a heated windscreen means when it's rainy and you have the aircon on recirculate instead of breathing in every one else's exhaust, the front windscreen will NEVER fog up??

14 minutes ago, newskodadriver said:

you have the aircon on recirculate instead of breathing in every one else's exhaust

 

So you'd rather be breathing in your passengers' exhaust instead... germs and all? :-)

 

14 minutes ago, newskodadriver said:

the front windscreen will NEVER fog up??

 

Only if you leave it turned on. Which will eat into your mpg, just like leaving the heated rear screen would do.

1 minute ago, WiggosSideburns said:

 

So you'd rather be breathing in your passengers' exhaust instead... germs and all? :-)

 

 

Only if you leave it turned on. Which will eat into your mpg, just like leaving the heated rear screen would do.

haha sometimes I even go so far as eating the passengers exhaust.... lmao

 

but in general, pm 2.5, nos2 and vocs are bad for lungs.... don't think 1mpg hit is going to bother me much tbh.