This Is What Happens When Your Car GPS Blows Up

Interesting. We used to worry about the GPS displays being damaged by extreme heat or cold--now it's the battery.

My first car was a 1968 Dodge Dart with an all-black interior. I parked it in the summer desert sun in 1976 at Carlsbad Caverns NP in New Mexico, and when we got back to the car, it wouldn't start. I opened the hood and was astonished to see that all the wiring under the hood was burnt up. Called AAA, and they came out and they towed it to the Dodge dealer in Carlsbad. They told us that these Darts had an unusual horn design that was quickly discontinued because in high heat the contacts for the horn would expand, the horn would start blowing and keep blowing, and with no fuse to stop it, the wiring would overheat and burn up. They saw it all the time.