can too much bass damage a GPS?

[timaishu 10+ year member]

My mom got me a garmin gps for christmas. I was driving around town using it while listening to rap and I noticed that it was vibrating alot on the bass notes.

Its hard to notice visually. But when you can really feel it when you put your hand on it.

I dont want to break the thing. Think I should be worried?

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[Dak446 10+ year member]

are you using that infinity sub in ur vehicle? cuz i doubt that it could produce enough bass to damage that. possibly in a huge spl vehicle...but not a one sub infinity setup.

 

[Crzy 10+ year member]

ive bumped my rl-p's and my gps never got damaged..... i also dont leave mine mounted to the car or ever or mount it to the car/windsheild. that little ring it leaves looks like shit and tells people you have a gps.

 

[ryan8551226 10+ year member]

i wouldn't even worry about it- god knows how many times mine has fallen from my windshield to the ground and it works perfectly

 

[01 S 10 10+ year member]

lol i dont see any damage happening to it. unless it fell off the dash/windshield and hit the floor.

 

[SplMonty]

nah, my tomtom loves the DBzzzz

 

[timaishu 10+ year member]

are you using that infinity sub in ur vehicle? cuz i doubt that it could produce enough bass to damage that. possibly in a huge spl vehicle...but not a one sub infinity setup.

Yea, Im using the kappa in my sig. It can get decently loud for a single sealed 10. With the right song, I can make my rear view mirror pretty much unusable from it vibrating like crazy.

I also have it mounted on the windshield. Most all of the vibrations its recieving seem to be transferred from the windshield through through the cradle to the gps.

 

[edzy 10+ year member]

I think its a bad idea...Its robbing juice from your sub amp. Or maybe try mounting it on some sort of anti vibration device, like a foam pad, or damper stuff.

 

[dave_damage 10+ year member]

I have seen large LCD screens crack from bass. But that's in hi power multi sub applications.

 

[Korn4Life 5,000+ posts]

YES, Its in the owners manual. Anything over 180db and they will screw up on ya.... Why u think dante dosent have one.... Jeeez everyone knows that...

 

[DBDRAGGUY 10+ year member]

I have bass raced 49 class with mine on the windshield plenty of times and it seems fine.

I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[Buttlice 10+ year member]

if you have an mp3 player and it isnt damaged yet then your gps will be fine. If it was a laptop, then you should worry :X

 

[Lil Poot 5,000+ posts]

i would recommend placing one of your buttplugs between the windshield and your gps to cushion to vibrations from that beat.

 

[bigaudiofanatic 10+ year member]

Well it is like for my motorcycle I have used normal gps and have been threw 2 of them so i finally broke down and bought a zumo 550 "800 bucks" But in a car you are fatiguing the circuit board but I dont think you will have to worry about it.

 

[GearGuy2001 10+ year member]

Yea, Im using the kappa in my sig. It can get decently loud for a single sealed 10. With the right song, I can make my rear view mirror pretty much unusable from it vibrating like crazy.
I also have it mounted on the windshield. Most all of the vibrations its recieving seem to be transferred from the windshield through through the cradle to the gps.

My rear view mirror rattled off and my radar detector has been fine, but its an escort 8500 x50 so its built way better then normal cobra's you see. Im sure your GPS will be fine.