BT GPS - heated rear windscreens

[proctog]

Hi

I considering buying a Bluetooth GPS for use in the car (with a Palm Tungsten T3) and am looking at the options for where to site it. Somewhere on the top of the dashboard at the front is the obvious choice, but it might be less intrusive to have it on the rear parcel shelf.

Is this feasible? I know there can be problems with cars with athermic/heated windscreens causing GPS reception problems (my car has a "normal" windscreen) but is the same true of rear windscreens? The embedded heating wires run horizontally and are about 2cm apart. The heated windscreens I've seen seem to have a very fine mesh of wires.

Does anyone here use a BT GPS on the rear shelf?

TIA

Glenn.

[tOpCaT]

Hi Glenn,

I've got a BT GPS on the rear shelf of my Renault (not right now, but when I'm using it ). It works fine.

I couldn't use it on the dashboard due to the bizarre metallic coating Renault put on their windscreens (which makes them look a crappy blue colour and seems to prevent GPS signals from getting through).

I hope this helps.
Tom

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