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If HUD is an option, I hope for some extra strength glass. When replacing windshields that are equipped with a vehicle with a HUD in my experience have to be replaced with OEM factory glass. And an off-road/work designed vehicle, it's gunna get cracks. Matter of when not if.
That Porsche HUD is amazing. My GMC has speed and speed limit on it, which is great but I'd love a bit more info. The glass replacement issue isn't as big for me personally.
YES! I love this feature: it is so useful to have this in my line of sight so I’m not nervously looking down at my instrument gauge and missing that the person ahead of me is braking or some such. It really helps. Definitely would like.
I'd love it.
Will my wallet like it? If my wallet likes it, I'm in.
Will my wallet like it? If my wallet likes it, I'm in.
I like the BMW hud with their iDrive 8 and 8.5. It is highly configurable to display what you want to see. It will also show maps from CarPlay as ell as BMW’s navigation. Very slick!
They’re useful for navigating to new places, but for driving around places I’m already familiar with I found them a bit distracting. Once I’m familiar with a car, I pretty much know how fast I’m driving just by watching the world go by. Only when there is a clear benefit do I want additional bits of motion in my (or close to my) line of sight.
Yikes! That’s nuts. I’ve never heard of windshields being so fragile until recently and I also thought until recently that they were a fully covered item in an auto insurance policy, or at least in MA (which I now see has to be covered by a $0 or $100 deductible): I’ve only had my windshield replaced once in the past 20 years, knock on wood. That’s wild! 6 months? Is it because of road debris or something else?
I live rural in S. Texas - in the Eagleford Play (oil field). A large portion of our traffic is oilfield (a large portion of our economy is oilfield - 100% of my income is oilfield). Every well, every production facility - is on a gravel road, most connected to gravel county roads (they few that directly connect to paved roads at least have to be paved for about 50'). Large trucks will get gravel lodged in the wheels - and then shoot them out like bullets at some point when they are up to speed on blacktop. I forget if my policy covers 1 or 2 windshields a year, but realistically we live with the cracks till the windshield is covered with them. The time it takes to get them replaced makes it not worth the effort till absolutely necessary. You can try to stay well behind the trucks, but it just does not help all that much. At least I have not have one go through a windshield yet-just a lot of cracks and stars.
Really sucks when they take out a light on my VW (HID lights are EXPENSIVE - last one was $1200). Never heard that rock, but it looked like someone put a hammer through it - nice clean half dollar sized hole. I think one of the KC fog lights on my Jeep has a hole in it as well now. Lenses on lights are not nearly as strong as windshields-but at least they are smaller targets.
Not sure how much difference it makes, but most of my families vehicles are trucks and jeeps - so they have more vertical windshields. That said, mini van and VW windshields don't last much better.
Really sucks when they take out a light on my VW (HID lights are EXPENSIVE - last one was $1200). Never heard that rock, but it looked like someone put a hammer through it - nice clean half dollar sized hole. I think one of the KC fog lights on my Jeep has a hole in it as well now. Lenses on lights are not nearly as strong as windshields-but at least they are smaller targets.
Not sure how much difference it makes, but most of my families vehicles are trucks and jeeps - so they have more vertical windshields. That said, mini van and VW windshields don't last much better.
I commute on a freeway that passes a sand/gravel pit and the trucks carrying it leave a trail of destruction behind them with the vehicles following in all the lanes of the freeway taking repeated hits. Right now I have about 7 large chips and small cracks in the windshield, if I see a crack start to grow I’ll get it replaced.
I also lost the glass in both fog lights. To replace the fog lights in my vehicle you need to completely remove the plastic “bumper” in which they are mounted and the process looks like it is so much more complex than it should be. I’m really hoping Scout are thinking about things like this. Replacing fog lights should be a simple, 15 minute job not half a day.
Understood Mousehunter but, I'm certain Scout will ensure their glass standup under extreme conditions - this is their time to shine!
I think a HUD would be an excellent option and opportunity to do something many other offroad vehicles don't offer. While not a dealbreaker for the Scout, it is one of the items I look for in a new vehicle. I like not needing to look down or over to see information.
I would be okay with a HUD with helpful information (navigation, entertainment, communication info like who's calling, etc.), but if it's just speed and a speed limit indicator, I'll pass.
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