Maybe another GPS mounting option?????

[Bob Denman]

Hi guys! I keep looking at the BRP GPS system and the $1200 price tag gives me gas... :shocked: My son and I were out car-buying and he had a suggestion:
Could you get a Bluetooth GPS and a compatible earbud and just mount the unit in the top trunk?
You'd save a pantload since a decent GPS can be bought for well under $200 and while I'm not sure about the earbuds; could they possibly cost $1000??? You've even got a power outlet back there.
His thinking was that the unit sitting out in the open begs to be "mis-appropriated" by somebody who's not too lazy to steal, but just lazy enough to not want to actually take the time to go get one of their own at a store...
Question... Do you think that the concealed mounting would prevent it from picking up satellite signals?
Thanks!

 

[stevedfive]

Its under Specialty Mounts
Specialty (Center Mount) Can-Am Spyder RT

Part Number 3-80007

 

[SpyderRider]

I am using my cell phone (Sprint EVO 4G) with GPS on and broadcasting to a Bluetooth receiver in trunk. The phone can either be in the rear charging or in the GIVI 890S Universal GPS carrier I have for the handle bars. I have run a charging port up front so I have my phone plugged in, capable of phone calls through my Scala headset, broadcasting both GPS and Pandora Internet radio through the Spyder sound system...all is great! :firstplace::yes:

Since I already own the phone I don't need a seperate GPS unit. Total cost for GIVI and wiring around $100.00! :clap:

 

[NancysToy]

Its under Specialty Mounts
Specialty (Center Mount) Can-Am Spyder RT

Part Number 3-80007

http://www.techmounts.com/products/index.php?page_function=detail&product_id=192

 

[Eraser]

It looks solid.:thumbup:Thanks for the link.

 

[chris56]

Hi guys! I keep looking at the BRP GPS system and the $1200 price tag gives me gas... :shocked: My son and I were out car-buying and he had a suggestion:
Could you get a Bluetooth GPS and a compatible earbud and just mount the unit in the top trunk?
You'd save a pantload since a decent GPS can be bought for well under $200 and while I'm not sure about the earbuds; could they possibly cost $1000??? You've even got a power outlet back there.
His thinking was that the unit sitting out in the open begs to be "mis-appropriated" by somebody who's not too lazy to steal, but just lazy enough to not want to actually take the time to go get one of their own at a store...
Question... Do you think that the concealed mounting would prevent it from picking up satellite signals?
Thanks!

BOB look on my modes .. I use the plug&Play bluetooth car-version

 

[Bob Denman]

I was kind of trying to set up a stealth-mounted GPS that didn't cost the arm and the leg that BRP gouges us for... I was figuring that with an earbud, the thing could whisper in my ear where and when to turn.
Besides... too many screens to look at and I'm bound to miss a pretty girl in a bikini somewhere! hyea:
SyderRyder and Chris56; Can you guys sned me any pics and/or specs of what's needed? I am tentatively looking at a Garmin 1390 since I can throw that in my Jeep when I get tired of the Missus chding me for my inability to navigate out of a phone booth without getting lost...
I think that I'd just need an earbud to link up to it.
So these units DO find satellites while in the trunk or bags??:thumbup:

 

[chris56]

http://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/album.php?albumid=227&pictureid=10777

its the idea of lamont .. no cables hanging around - only +/- 12v on the socket and bluetooth for the audiosignal - on the RT i don`t use the bluetooth from my helmet .. the soundsystem is loud enough - in the moment I just build in a bluetooth-receifer for the original gps-cable..
during the winter its used in our car ..