Bargain Garmin Quest sat-nav

[Huw]

Gentlemen - you are an excellent advert for Boxertrix membership! Your advice has solved the power drain problem, I just wish Garmin would respond re the brackets

Thanks again,

Huw

[Paul]

Huw,

I would be tempted to stick the dud bracket in the post to them and write a (calm, polite ) note to them asking what the b*ggery bollux has caused the contacts to arc and disintegrate. Betcha get a replacement (to wire into a switched circuit...).

Cheers,

Paul

[Boxered]

Huw, I managed to get a replacement cradle for the car from Garmin, all dealt with by email, they where quick to respond, but the cradle took 3 weeks to arrive, and they did'nt want my old one back, so I may butcher that for bike mounting purposes.

Steve

[Boxered]

Just found an annoying foible of the quest, a location that I want to enter has no street name or number, just a postcode and farm name, can I find it on the quest? can I bollox. I tried to find it using the mapsource (v7)software on the pc, but that can't find it either

anyone know how to use the grid reference with the quest?

Steve

[adamski49]

Steve

To find places with postcode only I normally find it on streetmap.co.uk then locate it in Mapsource. Not ideal I know but with a bit of cross referencing and pinning down the right road it doesn't take too long.

As for grid references... err... no, I've never tried. Reckon Paul might be able to help you though.

Adam

[Boxered]

Thanks Adam, I've tried that, but unfortunatley, this particular farm is on un named local roads in the middle of nowhere!!! (england / wales border to be precise). (sy21 8er to be even more precise)

Steve

[Paul]

Steve,

I'd go to Google Maps and type in the post code to find it on one of their clever zoomable, panable maps, then fire up Mapsource and locate the same pattern of roads to plonk a waypoint down on approximately the same stretch of road. Howzat?

Paul

[Boxered]

Thanks Paul, I'll give it a go tonight.

Cheers

Steve

[Harry]

Bank Farm, Bulthy farm or Hill farm?

[Boxered]

Bulthy hill farm, border quad bikes.

Steve

[Stevie]

Just found an annoying foible of the quest, a location that I want to enter has no street name or number, just a postcode and farm name, can I find it on the quest? can I bollox. I tried to find it using the mapsource (v7)software on the pc, but that can't find it either

anyone know how to use the grid reference with the quest?

Steve

I use the following method <takes a deep breath smiley>

Firstly, under "preferences", "units", you need to have "Grid" set to British National Grid, and "Datum" set to Ord Svy Gt Brtn (it might do this automatically).
Then set a waypoint and edit the grid reference in the position box. Da da - the waypoint marker will appear at your chosen grid reference.

[Boxered]

Excellent, thanks Stevie


Steve