Hi, all --
We have now had our blue cabrio for almost two months and love it. However, there is one perplexing operational glitch that I can't figure out. Our car came with an Eclipse add-on GPS system, dealer installed. It works great, with one little problem -- or maybe two.
First, in the morning it often takes as much as 10 minutes to get a gps signal -- our other car has a gps also and tracks immediately at our house, so its not a "dead reception area" problem. This is strange because it's only a morning phenomenon -- all other times the car knows right where it is immediately.
Second, perhaps related, and even more perplexing, when the car is started in the morning it can take up to 30 minutes for the automatic light dimmer (headlamps) to engage, and this happens even when I am driving in full sunlight. (It is easy to tell that the headlamps are still on because the gps screen stays dark until the lights turn off.) Again, once the lights finally are automatically turned off the system works great for the rest of the day -- turning off in tunnels, turning back on again as soon as the car emerges.
I am wondering if the latter problem (and perhaps the former) could be dirt or dew on the sensor device for the dimmer mechanism and/or the sensor for receiving gps signals. Not sure where those sensors are on the car. Anyone else experienced this? (The easy solution is just to turn off the automatic light dimming setting but this has gotten me curious!)
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