Bargain Garmin Quest sat-nav

Huw · Post by **Huw** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:44 pm

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

YouTube · Post by **Paul** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:56 am

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 · Post by **Boxered** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:34 am

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 · Post by **Boxered** » Thu May 18, 2006 9:57 am

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 · Post by **adamski49** » Thu May 18, 2006 12:15 pm

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 · Post by **Boxered** » Thu May 18, 2006 1:37 pm

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

YouTube · Post by **Paul** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:23 pm

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 · Post by **Boxered** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:42 pm

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

Cheers

Steve

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu May 18, 2006 3:52 pm

Bank Farm, Bulthy farm or Hill farm?

Boxered · Post by **Boxered** » Thu May 18, 2006 4:26 pm

Bulthy hill farm, border quad bikes.

Steve

Stevie · Post by **Stevie** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:32 pm

Boxered wrote: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 · Post by **Boxered** » Fri May 19, 2006 8:18 am

Excellent, thanks Stevie

Steve