Fitting Sat Nav in a Chimaera

[GTvr]

Am looking to buy a tom tom sat nav for the chim - borrowed one the other week and was impressed with all the features.
Only problem I found was with it in the righthand corner of the windshield with the roof down on a sunny day (with the sun behind me) the screen was hard to see.
Has anybody come up with a way to remedy this - I would like to keep it if possible in line of sight.
How have you fitted your sat nav, what is the best option?

Many thanks if you reply in advance..

[T_Pot]

Turn the volume up and ignore the screen

[V8 Animal]

T_Pot said:

Turn the volume up and ignore the screen

Yep that's what i do
Do you also disagree/argue/answer back with the compare.

[T_Pot]

V8 Animal said:

T_Pot said:

Turn the volume up and ignore the screen

Yep that's what i do
Do you also disagree/argue/answer back with the compare.

all the time...

it gets on my nerves when it tells me the same thing twice, even more so when i select a womans voice, almost as if the car is nagging me lol

[Red V8]

Swap it for a Garmin... never have any problems with mine

[bigdods]

I mount mine in the centre of the screen low down so the base just touches the dashboard with the screen angled down slightly. I can see it no problem (make sure you have the screen brigthness up to full). With it touching the dash it doesnt keep falling off the screen the way it does if I put it anywhere else.

Mounted that way the only view it blocks is the one of the wipers :-)

[Ribol]

GTvr said:

How have you fitted your sat nav, what is the best option?

Pioneer AVIC-X1 was my choice:

Edited by Ribol on Sunday 1st March 10:32

[blujay10]

bigdods said:

I mount mine in the centre of the screen low down so the base just touches the dashboard with the screen angled down slightly. I can see it no problem (make sure you have the screen brigthness up to full). With it touching the dash it doesnt keep falling off the screen the way it does if I put it anywhere else.

Mounted that way the only view it blocks is the one of the wipers :-)

Yep, works best here for me too. The curved screen makes it difficult to mount it successfully anywhere else.

[DavidLScott]

I've got a grippy 'bean bag' base for my Garmin that sits on the dash and stays put pretty well unless you get too spirited.
I don't know if you can get one for a TomTom but I just trawled through Google.

[bjshipway]

Friend of mine suffers a similar problem with his caterham, he got one of these apparently they work:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GPS-SHADE-VISOR-FOR-TomTom-7...

[drew.h]

T_Pot said:

Turn the volume up and ignore the screen

Only trouble is you can't hear it over the engine and wind noise at speed. You also get funny looks when, at full volume, it insists you do a u-turn when in a petrol station. The Ozzy Osbourne voice doesn't help either.

I was planning on fitting a bracket on the dash either to the right of the rev counter or left of the speedo and permanently wire the adapter to the ignition.

[Kwacker]

I put my garmin on the dash.

Right in front of the clock with the aereal poking up in the gap between the panel and the surround. It fits in there snugly and doesn't fall out under acceleration. It is also easy to see.

Kwacker

[bigdods]

drew.h said:

T_Pot said:

Turn the volume up and ignore the screen

Only trouble is you can't hear it over the engine and wind noise at speed. You also get funny looks when, at full volume, it insists you do a u-turn when in a petrol station. The Ozzy Osbourne voice doesn't help either.

I was planning on fitting a bracket on the dash either to the right of the rev counter or left of the speedo and permanently wire the adapter to the ignition.

I use the FM transmitter in the tomtom to send the voice through the radio speakers. Crank it up and you can always hear it. Do get odd looks when yoda is giving me directions at full volume while sat at the lights tho...

[Ribol]

TVR Moneypit said:

Ribol said:

GTvr said:

How have you fitted your sat nav, what is the best option?

Pioneer AVIC-X1 was my choice.

Show off

Well, he did ask