DTA wrote:
> I was on a trip last week with our new Camry. All of a sudden my
> Garmin 330c quit working, wouldn't track or hold satellites. So we
> pulled into a Best Buy and picked up a tomtom Go. Well soon we had
> the same problem. We discovered after a number of hours fooling with
> it, that the problems was the proximity to the compass in the
> rearview mirror. When we mounted it away from the mirror it worked
> fine. The garmin was still having some problems so I reloaded the
> software when I got home and it is working fine now.
>
> dt

that sounds weird -
was there some masking on the window up high behind the rearview mirror
like dots or lines to act as a sunshade ?

On 2008-04-15 05:33:41 +0100, "P.Schuman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> said:

> DTA wrote:
>> I was on a trip last week with our new Camry. All of a sudden my
>> Garmin 330c quit working, wouldn't track or hold satellites. So we
>> pulled into a Best Buy and picked up a tomtom Go. Well soon we had
>> the same problem. We discovered after a number of hours fooling with
>> it, that the problems was the proximity to the compass in the
>> rearview mirror. When we mounted it away from the mirror it worked
>> fine. The garmin was still having some problems so I reloaded the
>> software when I got home and it is working fine now.
>>
>> dt
>
> that sounds weird -
> was there some masking on the window up high behind the rearview mirror
> like dots or lines to act as a sunshade ?

And why have it mounted next to your mirror anyway!
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