Can't use the NAV.....

[Justin182]

Fuse trick

[Jez_mond]

Is it considered normal for a Nav to lose GPS  signal every 30 seconds followed by announcing that everywhere i go there is a traffic jam approaching. When there never is? This has to be the least effective sat nav I have ever used. I use my £50 Nuvi and it never fails but this pile of sh*t is just not fit for purpose. I would never have signed this junk off, Lotus craziness IMHO.

[TBD]

Lotus had an OEM agreement with Alpine that they apparently could 't get out of before 2012. It's basically a scrap electronics. The Pionier ig much better, and though I installed a Sony XNV L66BT.

Edited December 19, 2012 by TBD

[Jez_mond]

Ok, here is the thing. The sat-nav isn't fit for purpose for whatever reason and the bluetooth for phone calls doesn't work either. The Imprint stereo is brilliant so no complaints there.

 

Can I make a case to get the Nav unit replaced or upgraded under my warranty?

[Al]

There are lots of posts about this unit to trawl through for the history but if your car is early 2010 there is a good chance that you need the antenna upgrade.  I felt like you with my first Evoras and that made a huge difference.  It will never make it an intuitive unit but at least I could then get radio stations and have a sat nav picture.

 

Try the warranty issue, but I'm not sure you will get far on previous discussions.  More likely to start with the above.

[m1lum]

"Antenna update"?

What's this, tell us more.

My Satnav works out where it is about once every 20 minutes.

[Al]

I was 'lucky' enough to have one of the LE cars and another of the first cars and the initial antenna position was somewhere over your feet or something like that with a bunch of extra cable that was tie wrapped into a bundle so tighly it could be nipped. Location wasn't brilliant.  At some point about 1 year in, I got the upgrade mentioned which was basically the same thing with shorter cable and now fitted in the top of the instrument binacle in the 'removable' panel that is there.  After that heh presto my units went from being totally useless for Sat Nav and radio to merely cr@p radio and fine sat nav.  I might be wrong but I'm sure that even later cars run the thing up the right hand A pillar (offside in UK) into roof area but that may be wrong info.  There are other old posts where this is discussed to nausea level.  I gave up ages ago and just use it for an i-Touch player and occassional sat nav.  I don't travel that often on journeys where I want radio to get stressed about it.  As for Imprint that was the biggst waste of money on my LE car where not an option. I wouldn't be surprsed if wasn't actually fitted.  Don't get me started on the speaker quality either but all this is going off topic.

[Justin182]

I wonder if my 2010 came with the repositioned antenna as I've never had an issue with radio reception.

One thing that's been ok! Haha

[woza]

Woza,

      How did you fix yours?

Did you disconnect the battery for 10 mins?

 

Ged

I pulled the fuse for a couple of mins. Worked a treat!

[snowman]

I've the same problem now, but how the heck do you get that fuse panel off?  The top right hand corner does not seem to have clearance past the washer filler compartment release box (or whatever that metal box is for). The panel doesn't seem to wiggle out of the "channel" on the base.

[Bibs]

Lift it up then the bottom comes out first

[snowman]

still doesn't seem keen to come out. Like something flexible is glued in at the base. Do you mean move panel vertically upwards then pull out?

[Justin182]

Car matt out, then unscrew the two bolts, then pull from the bottom.  Its only connected by the bolts

[snowman]

Cheers, now sorted. :-)