KanPas Automotive Compass Ball for Car or Boat

This one works.

This compass absolutely did not work for me. It did not work in the car, it did not work in the house, it did not work on the lawn, it did not work in a box, it did not work with a fox. I do not like it Sam I Am.The KanPas “compass” that I received was, in point of fact, NOT a compass at all. Why? Because it proclaimed that I was *always* facing the same direction, no matter which direction I was actually facing. (The KanPas compass devoutly asserted that all directions would ever and always be SSE. Praise be to SSE. All glory to the eternal SSE. Thanks be to the almighty SSE. Amen.)A compass has *one* very simple job to do, which is to detect and respond to the Earth’s natural magnetic fields and clearly display that reaction thereby providing the user with a consistent sense of direction. If it performs this simple job, we can rightly call it a “compass.”Important Note: It is okay if the sense of direction provided by a compass is based on magnetic north rather than “true” north, so long as the compass consistently detects magnetic north.The floaty ball object I received did not do this.Executive Summary: The KanPas “compass” I received (by proclaiming ALL directions ever and always to be SSE) was not only an abject failure as a compass, it was, in actual fact, NOT a compass at all.Because of its inability to perform the one simple job of a compass (to detect and respond to the Earth’s natural magnetic fields and clearly display this reaction, thereby providing the user with a consistent sense of direction) the KanPas object I was sent, although labeled a “compass” by the company, was not, in fact, a compass. It was a floaty ball thing that *looked like* compass. Thank you for reading.

great little compass

I have a 2023 Toyota Sienne and the compass works best between the shifting lever and the box behind it that has a cover on it. t is very accurate and easy to use. I could not find a place on the dash that would give the correct reading. Overall I am very happy with it. Not so happy about Toyota not having a compassbuilt in the van.

I read several reviews warning that the compass does not work, and others that said that it is just a matter of finding the right location to place the compass. I took a chance and bought this, and mounted it on my dashboard such that there are no metal parts enclosing it at all. In fact the compass itself is nearly directly open to the sky (with glass in between). The compass appeared to work correctly for the first week, but then it began to be completely off. I am looking at it on my desk right now, and where it should be pointing North, it is reading West. Unfortunately just as I decided to give up on it, the return window expired. So I am down $20 on a useless compass.

Outside of my new 2024 car it works well, but inside it’s effected by the various electronics located everywhere from ceiling to console…the em fields created lock a magnetic analog compass into pointing a single direction relative to the nearest field. It might work well in an older car that doesn’t have a touch screen display, digital dashboard, emergency call system, gps antitheft tracking, Bluetooth, wifi, and gods know what else, but it my car it’s useless. I got a digital compass with em field compensators and satellite feed instead (just $5 more than this one) and that works very well.

My boyfriend loves this compass in his car!

Tried three different products from this manufacturer and all three were inaccurate by almost 25-30 degrees consistently, as compared to an i-phone compass app which is dead-on. Don't bother with this one folks!