Car bluetooth GPS recievers that work in the glovebox?

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I remember some of you (fox?) mentioning you got some ebay GPS dongles that enabled you to navigate with it in the glovebox and rolling around under the chairs in your car.

Can you namedrop me some brands please, or is there anything I should look for? I want to "hardwire" it into the glovebox so it is not on display :)
 
Lots of the recent GPS receivers (Sirf III?) will stay locked on with the awful signal it'd get hidden away, but few will get a lock in the first place. Place an aerial somewhere discrete?
 
Guigsy said:
Lots of the recent GPS receivers (Sirf III?) will stay locked on with the awful signal it'd get hidden away, but few will get a lock in the first place. Place an aerial somewhere discrete?
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That's my experience too. I put mine on the dash to aquire a signal, then in the glovebox once it has a lock.
 
Any sirfstar 3 chip will do it, but as said above it can struggle to get a lock and you can take quite a hit on accuracy if the anecdotal comments I have heard hold any weight.
 
I've got a Holux GPSlim 236, and it's great for getting a signal and keeping it, even when stashed away somewhere.

It does however, have a couple of bugs in it. When travelling it's hit n miss if you get a lock (from cold), however if stationary it picks up signal within a minute or so. Although this could be more to do with the SirfIII chipset rather then the Holux model.
Also, there are issues with the bluetooth working, this seems to be a hardware fault as I've read of a few people having to send it back to Holux to have it repaired. It is apparently something to do with dodgy soldered connections, normally I give it a whack and it works.
These problems don't affect every unit though, so you may get lucky.

There's a newer model, the GPSlim 240, but I don't know if these exhibit the same problems.
 
I have a cheapo 16 channel, which has never been out of the glove box in my car (and i have a heated screen too) i have no probs at all.

Mind you mine is hardwired to the ciggy lighter so is very rarely turned off.But even so, it never taken longer than 20-30 secs to lock on.
 
I have the newer Holux GPSlim 240 model (still sirfstar III chipset) and it's fantastic. Bloody tiny, about the size of an AA battery!

Locks on straight away and performs flawlessly in the glovebox.
 
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