Head up Display - Help with a "how-to"

[SpeedView]

Hi folks,



I sell SpeedView Daylight visible Head up Displays (HUDs).

These little gadgets project your speed onto the windscreen so that you can see your speed and see where you’re going at the same time, and I'd like you to have one for peanuts (£40) in exchange for writing a "how to" guide for fitting it.



Have a video and two photos:

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More installation info here:

http://www.speedview.co/help/download

Three wires to make it work - earth, ignition live 12V, and vehicle speed signal. I believe the E30 is electronic, so this should be just behind the clocks. Tuck the cable between the dash and the screen, pull it up behind the clocks, and you're away. Here's an install on a Mk2 MX5 as an example of the instructions I'm after:

http://www.speedview.co/forum/showthread.php?tid=2



Drop me a line at forums@speedview.co if you'd like to be a test pilot/guinea pig. (I'm after two volunteers at the moment)

[SpeedView]

A little more info:

It'll fit pretty much anything with a 12V battery, even if it has a mechanical* speedometer. They're dead neat, and you can adjust them to read spot-on no matter which combination of tyre/gearbox/engine you've put together. Properly legal too - they have passed Type-Approval testing, meet MOT regs, meet Construction and Use regs, and can even be used to pass the IVA test as your only speedometer.

The display is 10x brighter than an iPhone 4 so fully daylight visible. (Don't worry - it automatically dims at night to stop glare!)

*In the back of every mechanical speedometer there is already a magnet, so if you glue a little reed switch in the back it creates the electronic signal as the cable turns, just like the Mk1 Mazda MX5:

http://www.speedview.co/forum/showthread.php?tid=5

If you haven't got a speedo at all (racers, kits etc), you can find any old electronic speed sender that'll fit your gearbox, or you can point a special sensor at the propshaft bolts. Techie questions get the fastest answers on support@speedview.co - please ask.

If you'd like to know who on earth I am (or what toys I drive) there's always this:

http://www.speedview.co/about

[aj_mckay]

How much do you sell them for normally?

[SpeedView]

Hi AJ,


Retail is £69.99.


I'll be running a white-box group buy for the forums in the New Year at £60 delivered. (same product, same support/warranty, but without the fancy packet to save money)


I've tried to keep this first product simple - do one thing, show speed, and do it well - and at the lowest cost you can go to before performance suffers. (paying the initial DIYers to fit the first units helps keep the cost down for everybody and is a fun way to do it)


More info:

I get them made in the same factory as Valeo (large French automotive OEM) make their Head up Displays - same product, but better instructions (theirs seem to be Chinglish translated to French then back to English, I'd post for LOLs but they're copyrighted) better after-sales (you can talk to me and I'll probably be able to help too), and without the big company mark-up.


(Valeo's RRP is >£100, but some suppliers are starting to discount stock that isn't moving and they're down as low as £85)

http://www.google.co.uk/search?gcx=w&so ... 0&bih=1099

http://www.smileyouaredriving.com/uk_en ... ion-6.html


There are manufacturers in China that can knock £15 off the price, but they have to skimp on dimmer units/LEDs to do that (can't see them at night) and they can't meet the quality standards I need to get the displays Type-Approved (e-marked). Losing the Valeo mark-up is worth it, but not the performance.