Head up Display

[peterllewellyn75]

As anyone fitted a after market Head up Display the GPS type I was thinking of getting up if their anygood Peter

[Raistlin]

I once fitted a Jaguar GR1 HUD to a Ford Cortina. Trouble was, we needed to tow a Houchin diesel generator around with it for power supplies ;)

Was a devil of a job re-programming the display computer as well ;)

Seriously though, I'd have thought that a HUD visible to the driver would be a no-no :shrug:

[e668ecp]

British Leyland tried these in the 1970's... was either with a Morris Marina or and MG BGT - saw it on a video ages ago. Looked cool.

[tapped]

I'm sure there's a prod car out there with a basic HUD. Memory suggests current corvette and/or current BMW M5?????:shrug:

[Phil]

Do you mean those things that reflect onto the windscreen?

[juzza0]

Can you get universal ones then?

[W953 BJX]

surely if you just get an led number counter type thing from maplins then fit it to the dash pointing upwards but make sure its upside down and back to front so it looks right in the reflection on the screen, that'd work? No? A trip to maplins me thinks !

[juzza0]

Yeah, but you've got to get it to read and interpret the IPK info... maybe one for Hans the electronics wizard!!

[Foxy]

surely if you just get an led number counter type thing from maplins then fit it to the dash pointing upwards but make sure its upside down and back to front so it looks right in the reflection on the screen, that'd work? No? A trip to maplins me thinks !

Funny you should mention Maplin!

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?moduleno=222684

[Kearton]

I'd wondered about these some time ago. One thing that concerned me was whether the info displayed would be visible from outside the car too e.g to traffic cameras or passing plods.

K

[M3NDEREZ]

That's my next buy!!

[peterllewellyn75]

Hi the HUD Displays the speed of the car on the windscreen and automaticle adjusts for the light using GPS for speed sold at maplins although sounds good i have not seen them in action to know if anygood The idea is to be ale to see your speed without having to look down from the road if they work ok peter

[baxlin]

The idea is to be ale to see your speed without having to look down from the road if they work ok peter

Sounds good, but I wonder at the legality: Even a small stone chip on the screen if it's in the driver's line of sight is a no-no, MoT-wise. Deliberately putting a distraction in the same area would seem to be in the same "spirit", however arguably helpful it would be.

The argument for HUD seems to be that you wouldn't have to take youe eyes off the road to see speed etc. What about glancing in the rear view mirror, should that also be dead in front of you? What about other instruments?

Surely a much safer warning of excess speed, because that's all IMHO you'd need HUD for, would be the "speed limit" mode on the message centre, or a simple warning buzzer triggered by certain RPM, these have been around for years, I remember fitting one to my brother's Mk2 Escort.

Malcolm

[peterllewellyn75]

Hi The idea would be to have the display on the windscreen just below your line of sight were you would only see your bonnet no obstruction but would still see the speed ithout looking down peter

[Foxy]

Sounds good, but I wonder at the legality


I'm also fairly intrigued by the legality of it, as although it's putting something in your field of vision, a few cars do come with a head up display system from the factory. I remember one Mercedes in particular which projected an overlay from an IR camera directly infront of you to give you better night vision.

I toyed with the idea a couple of years ago, but you really need to pay attention to the angles involved or install some form of combiner lens, otherwise the image is ghosted and pretty horrible looking. Got quite close with an old PDA running some GPS speed/location software which allowed the screen to be mirrored, a few tweaks to the display colour scheme and installing it at just the right angle got fairly good results, but nothing I'd want to take any further really. Nothing to stop someone modding a small LCD device running some OBD software and writing something to display all the info you'd need. I just gave up out of sheer laziness. ;)

To be honest, I don't think I'd want one in the 75, as it would mean I'd spend less time looking at the lovely creamy oval dials. :D

[M3NDEREZ]

I can't imagine there's an issue with legality considering the new 5-Series comes with one as standard.. I'm really intrigued by this Maplin set-up because not only will it display speed, it'll link to my TomTom via Bluetooth aparrently.. Now sat-nav via a HUD sounds outstanding!

[tony_fry]

I do not think you will get HUD from the Sat Nav, I think it means you can link the GPS receiver with the TomTom unit.

I can't imagine there's an issue with legality considering the new 5-Series comes with one as standard.. I'm really intrigued by this Maplin set-up because not only will it display speed, it'll link to my TomTom via Bluetooth aparrently.. Now sat-nav via a HUD sounds outstanding!

[M3NDEREZ]

Oh well in that case, I'm not buying it :)

[tony_fry]

Here's a little more information on the Maplins HUD unit

http://www.pdamods.com/proddetail.asp?prod=A11HUDGPS