Retro fit HUD

[soupytwister]

Originally Posted by SuffolkBoy

I have to disagree that the HUD is unnecessary - it is a great safety aid in my view, no need to look down at the dash to check your speed as it is there in your direct eye line right next to the speed limit for the road you are driving on.

Have to agree. My S60 has it, the XC90 doesn't. When I get back in the XC90 I'm more conscious of peering through the steering wheel looking for the speed. So a useful but not essential option.

Even worse, went back into a car with just an analogue speedo the other day. Horrible - really hard to know when you're at 20/30/40/50/60 - and in Edinburgh, we've got all of these limits within the city. Especially as police tending to stop you for not going much over each limit these days....

[James77]

Originally Posted by Sphinx2000

I would suggest test driving one with hud before you go down this route. I have driven both with and without hud, and i found the hud is too distracting and completly unecessary. The electric heated windscreen is fantastic in cold weather and all frost is melted within 60 seconds. No scrapping required.

Started my car remotely this morning 10 minutes before I left the house. Seats, wheel and cabin was warm all frost turned to water when I got to the car. Why do I need a heated screen?

I have one in my other car I think they're a step backward.

[Quacker]

Originally Posted by James77

Started my car remotely this morning 10 minutes before I left the house. Seats, wheel and cabin was warm all frost turned to water when I got to the car. Why do I need a heated screen?

I have one in my other car I think they're a step backward.

Because if you did that for five days, you would consume about 0.25 litres of fuel, possibly up to 0.5 litres, because the engine would be cold starting.

[Ohiobill]

Originally Posted by PaulG9LXY

I keep seeing this but nobody can say why other than the wires in the screen make the HUD display a little distorted. Even my dealers didn't have any technical reason why they can't live side by side.

Before I go down the breakers route and get a unit from a crashed vehicle I just wanted to know of anyone else had attempted it and found out that it was in fact technically, actually, physically impossible to have both.

If nobody can say this then I'll give it a go and find out!

What became of this? Were you able to retrofit the HUD? I'm considering the same.