RNS 315 GPS Problems

sebking

sebking

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West Dorset
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T5 SE 140
Hi all,

I swapped out my RCD310 for an RNS315 from ebay. It came with an antenna and popped in pretty easy. Worked well to start with but now getting very intermittent GPS. I've not coded it to the MFD (need VCDS) but thought it should be fine.

Ive repositioned the antenna and it's still very flaky, the vendor says that the lack of coding may be causing the issue?

Also looking at the over VW forums there is a lot of mention about removing the VW antenna if that is fitted, I'm guessing there will not be one if a Nav was not specced from new? Not even sure where to look for it either!

Any ideas and anyone with VCDS near Oxford?

Cheers

Seb
 
I'm not near oxford but if you fancy a day out on the coast I guess we're about an hour away.

If you got one of the beetle style antenna with the unit then they are often magnetic on the bottom. Don't be tempted to stick that underneath something (I have seen people stick them inside the roof lining) as it'll be upside down. Mine is under the dash centrally located with a 'line of sight' through the screen and no GPS issues.

VCDS will report a GPS issue as in failure or fault so that will assist if the unit is faulty but otherwise coding does not affect GPS.
 
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