Satnavs- a position rant

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[sight-pin]

It's probably on the basis that a chip can easily develop into a large crack and obscure your vision etc.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

[QUOTE 4672283, member: 76"]If you have a smallish chip in your windscreen it is an MOT fail partly on the basis of reducing your vision.

In the car park at Burnham swimming pool is a car with, and I would have taken a picture if there wasn't someone sat in it, a bloody iPad mini in a bracket positioned directly above the dashboard! How the bollox is that legal? I then went for a walk around the car park, and there are lots of cars with satnav brackets and the like right in the line of the drivers vision!

Have a look around tomorrow and see how many people you spot deliberately obscuring their own view!

Rant over.....[/QUOTE]
They aren't legal.

And if I remember correctly will fail an MoT if presented with the mount in that position.

I may be making it up. But I thought they had to be outside the swipe of the wipers?

 

[screenman]

It's probably on the basis that a chip can easily develop into a large crack and obscure your vision etc.

It was pushed in by the big replacement companies back in about 1990 they originally wanted any chip to be a failure, luckily a group of us fought that and got the RAC on board and ended up with what we have now.

Now you may have read that it is illegal to repair a chip in the A zone, this is wrong as the MOT says repairs are permissible in that area as long as it is barely visible when repaired and not over 10mm. I have repaired thousands in that area, as far ad I know not one failure.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Police cars seem to have every tech device in the Halford's catalogue stuck to their windscreens.

 

[sight-pin]

It was pushed in by the big replacement companies back in about 1990 they originally wanted any chip to be a failure, luckily a group of us fought that and got the RAC on board and ended up with what we have now.

Now you may have read that it is illegal to repair a chip in the A zone, this is wrong as the MOT says repairs are permissible in that area as long as it is barely visible when repaired and not over 10mm. I have repaired thousands in that area, as far ad I know not one failure.

Yeah the impregnated glue or (whatever it is) does seem to do it's job.
At least with the advent of the laminated screen it's not now Bang!! and your suddenly driving blind as it was with the old toughened glass.

 

[screenman]

And it was a BANG!

 

[biggs682]

Our at nav sits along sied the rear view mirror and it works fine up there

 

[Markymark]

I have a pratnav who just tuts or shouts depending who far wrong I go. My wife has a twatnav that works in a similar way.

 

[gbb]

They aren't legal.

And if I remember correctly will fail an MoT if presented with the mount in that position.

I may be making it up. But I thought they had to be outside the swipe of the wipers?

That's my understanding as well...immediate MOT failure if mounted incorrectly.

And yes, I occasionally see a driver with a sat navigation splatted right in the middle of the screen....cretinous.

 

[screenman]

Satnav under passenger seat for me, I listen to it instead of watching it.

 

[marknotgeorge]

If my car satnav wasn't built into the top of the dash, I'd stick it on a Brodit mount, or more likely use my phone, which is also on a Brodit mount. I don't use the Brodit phone holder, though, as my phone lives in a case. I see, though, that they've started doing adjustable holders, and mounts for bikes.

 

[Drago]

You do see some right plums on the motorway with their t**t nav bang in front of their faces.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Police cars seem to have every tech device in the Halford's catalogue stuck to their windscreens.

They don't though really, do they? Go on, what have you witnessed? Because I can't think of many things they'd need in the windscreen. The dispatch computer is in the central console or passenger dash, most police cars have ANPR fitted externally. Maybe a tiny camera for recording in the top corner of the pax side windscreen.

 

[ufkacbln]

My wife wanted an updated one and we looked at a Garmin with inbuilt DashCam

It was only windscreen mountable and had to be fairly high up as the camera is at the bottom of the device.

This is the mounting position:

If it had been designed the other way up, a dashboard mount would have been possible (and legal)