New windscreen = lost GPS
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 3:45 pm
Hi all,
About a week ago I had my windscreen replaced by Autoglass due to a spreading crack near the edge. All seemed fine until a couple of days ago, when my car's nav suddenly thought I was driving through fields. Initially I attributed this to being on some newly built roads near Kettering, but it has now not resolved itself after a few trips on older roads. I found how to see the service menu, and that's where I can now see no GPS satellites are being picked up, highlighting a problem with the GPS sensor itself.
I can see from RealOEM that the sensor sits somewhere around the rear view mirror, which leads me to believe that the replacement of the windscreen has caused a problem, either with the sensor itself or the wiring leading to it.
I have contacted Autoglass, who can't get anybody to me until Weds at the earliest.
Does anybody have any insight if this is likely to be the cause - I can see this becoming an argument if there is no evident damage by the Autoglass installer? If anybody has any pics of the antenna location / wiring itself in advance that would be very helpful.
Cheers!
About a week ago I had my windscreen replaced by Autoglass due to a spreading crack near the edge. All seemed fine until a couple of days ago, when my car's nav suddenly thought I was driving through fields. Initially I attributed this to being on some newly built roads near Kettering, but it has now not resolved itself after a few trips on older roads. I found how to see the service menu, and that's where I can now see no GPS satellites are being picked up, highlighting a problem with the GPS sensor itself.
I can see from RealOEM that the sensor sits somewhere around the rear view mirror, which leads me to believe that the replacement of the windscreen has caused a problem, either with the sensor itself or the wiring leading to it.
I have contacted Autoglass, who can't get anybody to me until Weds at the earliest.
Does anybody have any insight if this is likely to be the cause - I can see this becoming an argument if there is no evident damage by the Autoglass installer? If anybody has any pics of the antenna location / wiring itself in advance that would be very helpful.
Cheers!