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Postby gannet » Tue May 12, 2015 9:10 am


waremark wrote:Don't you mind blocking the vent? I have always been happy positioning a satnav at the base of the screen. In my current car I have it in the bottom right corner, where it is least obscured by the heated windscreen which causes poor reception. I would be happy with suction mounts if only they continued to work as well as they do when new.

Vent is only slightly blocked in the DS3 - but by the phone not by the mount. If I have the phone in landscape it wouldn't block at all. They also do a mount for my car which fixes to the a-pillar which wouldn't block either.

the position for our new MINI is to the left of the main speedo and again below the vents, but I doubt we will get one for that car as it comes with NAV etc all built in.
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Postby akirk » Tue May 12, 2015 9:27 am


agreed - minor issue - though in the Z3 you have to be careful not to get the satnav too hot if the heater is on... much prefer it there to in my vision - again, with the z3, you have a smallish windscreen and the mirror is too big already - so a satnav would create a major block below it - would agree that at the base of the A-pillar would be less issue, but like it in the centre so that passengers can also see it...

with the skoda coming in the next few weeks I will wait and see if the built in satnav is any good before deciding what to do...

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