Have you fitted a sat nav to a Ford Focus?

Question

I want to get sat nav for my Ford Focus but it has a heated front screen and on the sat nav boxes it says that if you have a heated front screen you might need an additional aeriel. Has anyone fitted a (not a Ford one) sat nav to a Focus with a heated front screen and did you need an extra aerial fitted. Thanks, Ruth

Answer 1

if you look at the heating element in the windscreen you will notice it stops about 2" from the edge of the screen. if you set up sat-nav as near to edge of the screen it should be OK. i have a focus and have a tom tom and it works fine. but when i first asked about this where i bought it they wouldn't let me try it first, they said i would just have to buy an ariel if it didnt work

Answer 2

I have a Sat Nav which is like a PDA, it is a Navman icn510.
It does say in my book that I would need an external ariel adapter. However, when I put the unit to the right of my windscreen and flip open the internal ariel it works fine. Usually 3 bars out of 4 signal strength.

Answer 3

We had a similar thing on our car and we needed to buy a " magnetic Ariel mouse " it screw`s into the back of the sat nav and stick`s to the roof .
Cost about £8 from maplin electronic`s and it is about the size of a £2 coin and about half inch thick !
Because it`s magnetic there is no need to drill holes for it .

Answer 4

The easy way is to look on the baox for the sat nav you buy there should be an accessory pamphlet, showing you what you will need. Easy Peezy to fit though.
Would not be without mine.

Answer 5

bit like puting caviar in a kebab!

Answer 6

i dont know