Honda Car Forum

Is there a compass that actually works when installed in a car. I keep
buying these floating in water ones and I can antually see the position
change as I move it around in the car and they always fall off after about 2
weeks anyway.

What products are there to provide compass directions reliably and withstand
the heat of being inside a care.

thank you

If you get a liquid filled compass, complete with the adjustment screws (+
instructions) and have access to true N-S, E-W roads or tracks on which to set
it up, it should be OK. Mine took me about 30 minutes of fiddling with the
screws and re-checking, before I was satisfied with the adjustment. After that
it was fine until the next summer's heat screwed up the liquid fill.

I now use a Garmin GPS12 - it's OK providing that I'm moving or have recently
come to a halt.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm


"JASONST" <JASONST@AOL.COM> wrote in message news:HL9qFn.G1F@news.boeing.com...
> Is there a compass that actually works when installed in a car. I keep
> buying these floating in water ones and I can antually see the position
> change as I move it around in the car and they always fall off after about 2
> weeks anyway.
>
> What products are there to provide compass directions reliably and withstand
> the heat of being inside a care.
>
> thank you
>
>
>

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:18:04 +0100, "Malcolm Stewart"
<malcolm_stewart@megalith.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

>If you get a liquid filled compass, complete with the adjustment screws (+
>instructions) and have access to true N-S, E-W roads or tracks on which to set
>it up, it should be OK. Mine took me about 30 minutes of fiddling with the
>screws and re-checking, before I was satisfied with the adjustment. After that
>it was fine until the next summer's heat screwed up the liquid fill.
>
>I now use a Garmin GPS12 - it's OK providing that I'm moving or have recently
>come to a halt.

Good advice if you want accuracy.

On the other hand if it's just a rough idea of direction you want when
lost in one of those spaghetti twisted streets in a residential
subdivision, a cheapo will serve. Two things to watch are heat and
location. I keep a good sized spherical compass in that little storage
container in the armrest. I only take it out when i need it and then I
jam its suction cup against the windshield directly above the
instrument panel so it's in my line of sight and away from magnetic
influences of the instrument panel.