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Old Jul 18th, 2016, 09:10   #1
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Morning all

My Sat Nav seems to have lost its location over the weekend. It still moves around but show me as between 30 and 50 miles away from my actually location.

I am going to call Volvo today but wondered if anyone knew of a reset procedure for it
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Old Jul 18th, 2016, 09:30   #2
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My Sat Nav seems to have lost its location over the weekend. It still moves around but show me as between 30 and 50 miles away from my actually location.

I am going to call Volvo today but wondered if anyone knew of a reset procedure for it
Wait, or reset it yourself
I've experience occasional large GPS errors that corrected themselves over time (over a couple of days)

Caused primarily by disturbance in the ionisphere that impacted the GPS signals

So run through the manual reset (in your handbook, used when eg correcting posiiton after a ferry trip) or park the car, turn it on, and wait 30min on a clear day (not a rainy or misty day)
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Old Jul 18th, 2016, 13:13   #3
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Spoke to Volvo and they said they thing its the GPS antenna that its faulty, three is no reset. I looked in my manual and cannot see a reset ?
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Spoke to Volvo and they said they thing its the GPS antenna that its faulty, three is no reset. I looked in my manual and cannot see a reset ?
OK. On my 2009 xc90 you can reset the position. But that appears to have been removed in future nav systems

eg: a 2013 sensus nav manual just states the following:

The position of the car on the map is wrong
The Navigation system shows the position of the car to an accuracy of about 20 metres.
There is a greater chance of error when driving on roads lying parallel to another road, on winding roads, on roads on several levels and after driving a long distance without making any distinctive turns.
High mountains, buildings, tunnels, viaducts, over/underpasses etc. also have a negative affect on the reception of GPS signals, which means that accuracy in calculating the position of the car may decrease.

The position of the car on the map is incorrect after transportation
If the car is transported, for example by ferry or train, or in such a way as to impede the reception of GPS signals, it can take up to 5 minutes before the position of the car is correctly calculated.

The position of the car on the map is incorrect after the car battery has been
disconnected

If power has been cut from the GPS antenna, it can take more than 5 minutes for the GPS signals to be received correctly and the position of the car to be calculated.
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Old Jul 26th, 2016, 09:48   #5
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was aerial in the end they replaced under warranty
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Old Jul 27th, 2016, 21:03   #6
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Thanks for the update, I find few folk do, they just leave you guessing if it was resolved.
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Old Aug 14th, 2016, 16:42   #7
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antenna is in the roof shark fin very common fault
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Old Nov 30th, 2017, 18:09   #8
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Question bluebird

My 2014 V60 D4 seems to think its in Brussels Its done it before and corrected itself witin a couple of days but wont budge after a week.Is it the antenna?
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