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Heads up display added.

1.4K views 8 replies 5 participants last post by  strongbad  
#1 · (Edited)
Installed this heads up display today. Got it for cheap from Ali Express. Pretty impressive for the price.
It uses GPS satellites to determine road speed, not OBDii.
The pic is on the bare windshield, I didn't use the included reflector, seems good enough without it, day or night.
Edit: The blur in the pic is from the camera, although there is a reflection from the 2 layers of glass in the windshield because of not using the reflector film.
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#2 ·
This daytime pic is with no reflector. You can see a double image because of the 2 layers of glass. It doesn't appear this bad from my seating position.
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This pic is daytime with a reflector. Note the double image is gone. The reflector was a used one, I just used it to demonstrate the difference in brightness, it was not securely attached so there is distortion in the pic.
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#4 ·
Below 50 km/h it's right on. At 80 km/h it's 2 km/h high. The most I've seen is 3 km/h high.
This one only needs a USB power connection and because it uses GPS it doesn't need a OBDii connection.
There is enough USB cable with it to across the lower windshield, down the door post, across under the dash, to the power outlet socket. I used a 12 volt charger because the Kona doesn't have USB type A connection. Could use a USB A to USB C adapter. Or a long USB C to USB C cable and use the Kona USB port.
Power is removed from the power outlet when the Kona is shut off so no fear of the HUD draining the battery.

The old OBDii HUD unit worked in all my other cars but would kill the battery if the Kona wasn't driven for 3 days. An insurance dongle killed battery in same way too.
The insurance dongle techs said the Kona was not putting the dongle to sleep, it wasn't getting the engine is off data from the OBDii port so it stayed awake at full power all the time.
Sadly, Hyundai is not interested in listening to customers.
Some pics
Across windshield
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Down door post, cable tucked under the rubber trim
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Under dash to console
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To power outlet
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