Warning on having a---- G P S----

by **wayne19540** » 9 Jun 12, 5:41 pm

Now I have placed this in spam because it was sent to me bye "email" and I have never heard of this ever happening to any one that I no off; I did have a GPS but it was not the best of GPS that are on the market today its setting in my shed gathering dust;
Now my :?:

question to you all is has any one ever or knows of this to ever happening to any one.

A GPS was placed in it’s bracket in the windshield and left in the sun. The battery overheated and exploded!

by **Chucky** » 9 Jun 12, 5:45 pm

wayne19540 wrote:Now my question to you all is has any one ever or knows of this to ever happening to any one.

http://tia-mysoa.blogspot.com.au/2012/0 ... osion.html

http://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/local/GP ... 35859.html

by **wayne19540** » 9 Jun 12, 5:59 pm

Thanks Chucky so it is ligament;
I think I just may stay with the old road book safer I think. :lol:

by **CelticAngel82** » 9 Jun 12, 6:01 pm

ours lives in the glovebox. and the car is always in the sun.. had it there for oh. 4 years now. no explosions yet!

by **wayne19540** » 9 Jun 12, 6:05 pm

CelticAngel82 wrote:ours lives in the glovebox. and the car is always in the sun.. had it there for oh. 4 years now. no explosions yet!

My one had this thing of telling me that I had reached my distension and the problem is I only just started the dam car and had not moved out of my yard so now it s in the shed.

by **Dean** » 9 Jun 12, 7:24 pm

I hope no one has their home address programmed in their GPS :adminfinger:

by **Ralph Wiggum** » 9 Jun 12, 10:28 pm

Personally I think the bigger risk is having someone break into your car and steal it. Walking through the train station car park, I'm gobsmacked to see people leave their GPS attached to the windscreen. It's practically screaming out to a thief, "Hey look at me, I'm shiny and expensive. You can trade me in for your next drug hit! Take me! Take me!"

If I ever use my GPS, I always take the mount off afterwards and leave no evidence that I ever had one.

by **Trixxter** » 9 Jun 12, 11:06 pm

...21 and still using books.

by **brat81** » 10 Jun 12, 1:19 am

Dean wrote:I hope no one has their home address programmed in their GPS

??

by **revengous** » 10 Jun 12, 1:20 am

I use my phone

im such an illegal person.

by **Shinanigans** » 10 Jun 12, 5:11 am

brat81 wrote:
Dean wrote:I hope no one has their home address programmed in their GPS

??

It's so when someone steals & joyrides in your car, they know where to return it to.

by **Dean** » 10 Jun 12, 6:10 am

by **Marius** » 10 Jun 12, 6:34 am

Why is that a bad thing?

by **brat81** » 10 Jun 12, 6:53 am

I think someone has been watching to much Today Tonight and ACA

by **Dean** » 10 Jun 12, 7:31 am

I know people who've had their house broken into after their GPS was stolen.