All the initial settings are in Celsuis, Liters, and KM/h. Some quick referencing of the manual and things get set to US standards. The other gauges can be dialed in by adjusting values to match your car. Most of the things I set in less than 5 minutes.
Like I said, things need to get dialed in. I had done the flip to US measures, and adjusted the RPM counter. I never got to the adjustment for the speedo. I will
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This may be hard to see. But the location of the reflective film is determined by the location on the dashboard, the angle of the windshield, and the height of the driver.
In the case of the sterling, the angle is so extreme that the hud unit would have to be placed further back (away from the windshields base) to make this work. For those of us with standard dashboards, you have many more options for placement. For people with modified dashboards that are closer to the windshield, the choice become more limited.
The POF or point of focus is determined by the distance from the hud to the reflective film. Using collimating lenses and mirrors can increase this focal depth.
If you want to do an easy and cheap determination of where you would be able to place a hud heres a method.
With the canopy down, use a laser pointer (held at the height of your eyes) to point a dot just below where the back bumper of a car would be while sitting at a stop light.
The laser will reflect down onto the dash board showing you potential locations for your HUD. Where the laser hit the windshield is where your
film would go, and the dot on the dash is where you
hud should go.
HUD film: HUD film is a polarized semi reflective mirror, not the film that goes on you Ipad or smart phone. Yes, i tried that too. Though it will work, it doesnt work as well as actual HUD film.
On the first test drive I noticed immediately people would see the screen on the dash, or the gauges in the window, and would really look hard at it. Other drivers really like seeing it.
But like Rick mentioned about the speedo being off, I have to adjust the speedo's setting down some to get it to match my cars speedo. Im sure it reading 57 in a 50mph zone, when Im actually doing 52, might end up a tattle tail to a cop.
The poisiton my HUD is in my hyundai is determined mostly by the shape of the dash. So it ended up there due to the cars design leaving me little in the way of places to put it where I could see it.