Nav issue...please help...

doctob

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I am having an issue with my navigation system. I have the 05 solara nav unit in my 05 JBL 4runner. Every once in a while, about once a week, the nav will go totally nuts and act like it is lost. It will have me 30-40 miles off course. Usually, within 20-30 minutes it will reset and go back to where I should be. However, it did this again last night while out at the movies. When I got back in the car (I was in the lowest underground level at the AMC theatre on the Levee) it showed me as being in the Ohio River. I attributed this to being underground and not being able to get a Sat signal. When I went out and started driving it had me totally off again all the way home (about 20 minute drive). I wasn't worried, because I thought when I got in this morning to drive to the hospital it would work fine. WRONG. It was still doing it. Now, I have not changed any settings on my Nav, except for the override option to allow in motion nav plotting.

Does anyone else have this problem? Am I doing something wrong here? I installed it myself, and had no issues with the installation. My antenna is mounted above the sunglass/sunroof console in the roof liner. It hangs loose. Thanks for any help you can give.
 
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so it has a layer of metal above it then? I'd go into the service mode and look at the signal levels from the satellites...I'd be willing to bet they are low and it's not getting a very good lock on 'em.
 
Mine does that a lot when I go into a garage that I have to do a lot of turns in....It usually recovers it's place about 5-10 min after going back into the open...
How did you mount your GPS antenna? If you used tape, it is possible that it slipped/moved under the dash....
(edit: I see you have it mouted near your roof.....I think you may be better off mounting under dash....)
Also, is there a canopy of trees on your route home? If so, this may block the signal from reaching your antenna...
Good luck....
 

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