[Smarty]

I talked to Garmin about their device and Harley's. They say no one is making a radio or device that will blue tooth with a headset. It seems like a great idea, but everyone had the bluetooth where your phone will bluetooth to the unit whether it is a radio or gps unit. Kind of sucks but no one that I know of is jumping on it yet. Rumor has the Harley will come out with a headset and a download to it for connection on their headset only.

 

[Smarty]

It's exactly what I expected from Harley. The tech isn't new to Harley or or anybody else. Harley doesn't make their head units. 10 year old tech is no tech at all.

I guess my point is, there are lots of gripes about the system, but why? It's what should be expected. And the head unit to headphones via Bluetooth? It would be nice to have, but it's not available on ANY head unit, so why think HD would do it first?

Ijs.


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I think we also have to remember that when Harley starts designing a new bike, it just didn't happen the year before. Years go into design and planning. Tooling has to be adjusted, time lines for parts manufacturers considered. When Harley first started working on the Rushmore I would think they started contacting Harmon for what they could do with a radio. At that time, the GPS would not have been that old in the whole scheme of things. Now would have Garmin been a better choice for the gps, heck yeah. I'm sure some kind of update will happen sooner than later. Heck, on my new Garmin I bought, it was probably over a year out of date when I got it. They just had an update just recently. Hopefully Harley will get this straightened out with Harmon and make everyone happy.

 

[Smarty]

First, throw out everything you ever knew about using a GPS and start over, If you start from scratch and learn it's quirks, the craptainment unit works pretty decent. But agreed, it's not, and won't ever be, a Garmin or TomTom.

Yes, you can make the infotainment shout prompts through the speakers, read the manual, it's in there, as is a lot of stuff you're probably missing.

Yeah, it took me a while to figure out that you could turn up the voice on the prompts for turns and such. When it starts talking you can push volume up during it and increase the volume. Other than that you have to search thru the radio for the proper area to turn it up. Not easy at first doing it like that. Also, anyone having problems with the voice saying turn left and the map shows you to be turning right?

 

[Smarty]

Couldn't agree more with you. I know the nav disc for my Avalanches are $200 each and they're not up to date either.


My Garmin I use in my work truck gets up dated everytime they have an update. Road three years old still don't make the cut. They sell more units than Harley does. Hell, Google maps is the most accurate one out there and it's still missing streets. I'd love to see the work that needs done to load and update every map out there. Probably have a whole floor of people in a building working on it.

I agree. 2 years is about the best anyone could hope for with the age of updates. One day they will probably have rolling updates kind of like Mac Books do on their computers. I'm actually surprised they haven't gotten to that yet.