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>All the car GPS units I have seen are provided with some kind of windscreen
>mounting.

> All the car GPS units I have seen are provided with some kind of
> windscreen mounting. A friend of mine has just had his car fail its MOT.
> One of the reasons given was that the GPS mount interfered with visibility
> through the screen.
> He obviously removed it before the re-test and it was passed. A while back
> a previous car of mine failed and one of the reasons then was that the
> licence holder obscured part of the swept area of the windscreen. Both the
> instances happened at different test stations with different testers.
> So to have the best chance of passing your next MOT remove your GPS and
> mount and make sure that the rest of the screen is clear.

> Was the tester a midget. When I mount my sat-nav on the dash I can
> seen the front of the bonnet *above* the top of the sat-nav.
> --
> gomez

> There is a lot of difference between mounting one on the top of the dash (as
> I also do) and the rubber sucker type mounted on the screen itself.

>On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:14:43 +0100, Hawkins
> dropped the following oil-slick:
>
>>All the car GPS units I have seen are provided with some kind of windscreen
>>mounting.
>
>Was the tester a midget. When I mount my sat-nav on the dash I can
>seen the front of the bonnet *above* the top of the sat-nav.

> All the car GPS units I have seen are provided with some kind of
> windscreen mounting. A friend of mine has just had his car fail its MOT.
> One of the reasons given was that the GPS mount interfered with visibility
> through the screen.
> He obviously removed it before the re-test and it was passed. A while back
> a previous car of mine failed and one of the reasons then was that the
> licence holder obscured part of the swept area of the windscreen. Both the
> instances happened at different test stations with different testers.
> So to have the best chance of passing your next MOT remove your GPS and
> mount and make sure that the rest of the screen is clear.
>
> These events made me think on these lines. If it is deemed to be unsafe to
> have a GPS stuck on the screen at the time of the test what about the rest
> of the time?
> One of the problems of having a lit up active GPS unit in a windscreen
> mount is that it is highly visible to other vehicles following behind or
> alongside. More and more police cars are fitted with video cameras these
> days so do not make yourself a possible target by having the screen lit up
> all the time. Use it with discretion.
>
> In a previous thread I was dissed for suggesting that it was safer to rely
> on audio information from the GPS rather than look at the screen. I wonder
> if these critics will leave their GPS units in place when they have an
> MOT, whether they would remove them before taking any form of driving
> test, or feel comfortable to star in a police video.
>
> Richard.