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Old 06-19-2012, 09:41 PM   #15
xwd
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I had similar issues today in my BRZ which I just got yesterday. I did about a 10 mile/20 minute drive down a freeway this morning and it didn't find any satellites until I slowed down and got on another freeway. I also had it lose the satellites again on a short drive and it didn't find them again until I pulled into my subdivision at very low speed.

Atlanta has a ton of tree lined streets and even freeways with tall trees so I'm hoping it isn't the height of the car and the position of the receiver which is an issue. I did check the signal strength (you can touch the satellite icon) and it had reception from 5 satellites, but nothing strong enough. When I got into the subdivision I did see the strength go up and the nav synced up pretty quickly...

I do consider this to be unacceptable, and plan on taking the car to the dealer if there isn't some simple fix to be found. I have a nav system in my 2012 Wrangler and it never has an issue picking up satellites anywhere...
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