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Old 11-01-2005, 11:18 AM
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Mk4 nav thinking i am in wrong place
I just upgraded form a Mk3 had some trouble getting the right DVD but got that sorted now. But now my sat nav thinks I a about 5 mile from where I am and the more I drive the further out I gets anyone have any idea what it cud be? (I think I weird it right When I changed them over I unplugged the antenna lead and plugged it in to the back of the Mk4 computer and the 2 other plugs . If there is something I miss let me know.)


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Old 11-01-2005, 02:59 PM
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I just upgraded form a Mk3 had some trouble getting the right DVD but got that sorted now. But now my sat nav thinks I a about 5 mile from where I am and the more I drive the further out I gets anyone have any idea what it cud be? (I think I weird it right When I changed them over I unplugged the antenna lead and plugged it in to the back of the Mk4 computer and the 2 other plugs . If there is something I miss let me know.)


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With any GPS unit, you'll need to drive around in a circle to get it to "find" you. Did you do that?

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With any GPS unit, you'll need to drive around in a circle to get it to "find" you. Did you do that?

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Another suggestion is to park it in an open area for a while, such as a parking lot.
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Moved mine 6000 miles without turning it on for 6 weeks and it took over an hour to finally find itself. Think its just a matter of processing the GPS info and the map info sync up.
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there is an option to se your currant position witch i have done but when I start to drive and it will go all out of wack 1st say I am closer to a junctions than I am than in the next street over then next town over and well you get the idea. I think it my not be picking up the GPS signal (that sound right?) I don’t know maybe I am just not using it right lol.
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Are you using a copied DVD Map disk? or original map DVD?

If you are using a copied version of the Map DVD, trying to copied it again to a better quality media and try DVD-R media as well as DVD+R media.

In my case, I had a my map "jumping" and "stopping" problems and once I changed to DVD-R media, it seems to be gone.
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