[Mgs] GPS/Nav in a MG - blind and deaf

[Charles Hill]

Oops! I replied to the wrong post. Hope I don't confuse anyone.  I meant 
to reply to your question about batteries.

Charles Hill

  On 7/7/2013 10:29 AM, Charles Hill wrote:
> David,
> The 26R has been around for a long time.  It doesn't quite fit the 
> MGA.  It is another battery that you are thinking about.  Check 
> http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/electric/et203.htm
>
> Charles Hill
>
> On 7/7/2013 9:59 AM, David Breneman wrote:
>>   From: Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins at ktc.com>
>>
>>
>>> I was to meet a friend
>> at a VW dealership in San Antonio, in order to
>>> drive him home after he
>> dropped off his bug for service.  We left
>>> Kerville at about the same time
>> in the morning but he arrived at the
>>> dealership more than half an hour
>> later than I did.  Turned out that
>>> he'd followed his GPS's advice which
>> routed him away from the freeways
>>> and through city streets as soon as he
>> got to San Antonio. The thing is,
>>> he knew the direct route but followed the
>> GPS's advice because he
>>> "thought it might know a shortcut."  Go
>> figure......
>>
>>
>> I have just the opposite problem with the GPS in my Chevy
>> Trailblazer. It wants to take me out of the way to get
>> me ONTO a freeway,
>> sometimes backtracking for miles.
>> It seems to prefer the "fastest" route
>> unless you tell it
>> otherwise.  But I find GPS invaluable when looking for
>> an
>> address in an unknown town or part of town.  It's pretty
>> easy to tell when
>> it's asking you to do something stupid,
>> and if you ignore its instructions,
>> all the ones I've seen
>> will quickly compute a new route based on your current
>> location.
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