I am noticing a lot of new cars with an in-dash GPS system. Anyone know of one for our cars?

 

in OEM form they are not available for the Protege, and i don't see it ever being available.

 

I think in a couple years it will be in the Mazda 6 ...Jon

 

the accord has one, so prob the 6 will be getting one

 

No, but you can put your own in

alpine, clarion, kenwood, pioneer, etc all make in-dash screens with gps/dvd/etc .... they start around 1000 though


or you can get an in-dash screen for 200-250, then hook up a mini-computer or laptop to the screen and get a $100 gps receiver and $50 Street Atlas 2003 and you have full voice-activated gps navigation, mp3, computer games, etc

that's what I did for my car

 

Nicholasp27, that*s exact3y what 5 want to do!!! im currently looking through the forums on mp3car.com.

any tips? what system do you have?

 

i have a 7" in-dash lcd screen (digitalwww on mp3car.com forums sells the same one, but better customer service than mp3playerstore.com...plus he will add touch-screen to it for $105!!)

i had a laptop running it, but it's mobo died, so i'm selling the parts on ebay to fund building of a mini-itx or mini-atx pc with my laptop's hard drive (using $2.50 laptop to ide adapter). The audio out goes to my eq, which also has my head unit and ps2 coming in to it...so i can hear voice navigations while listening to cds!...but right now just ps2 and hu hooked up...since laptop is dead...it'll prolly be a month before i build new comp, but here is pic of it running from my laptop:

 

Thats Crazy looking. I would love to have one..Jon

 

how much is it without the touch screen? that's an awesome deal.

what about your A/C vents? does the car get hotter now? i wanted to put a screen right where you have it.. but the vents.. any damage to the screen?

what hardware are you using to bring everything together?

thanks.

 

I like it but it would be a target to get stolen..Jon

 

it folds into dash, so is no more a target than a hu

and it's $240ish without touch screen

 

Does the face plate come off like a HU?..Jon

 

no, but it's just a silver front...nothing that says video screen or anything

i'll take pic later

 

Nicholasp27, how did you install both units? did you make a bracket?

 

u have 2 metal pieces on each side with holes in it...u put screw through piece into hole in screen and into hole in hu so u have the 2 connected at right distance apart in 4 places

then i took piece of abs plastic and broke off a piece the length of hole and the width between the 2 and hot glue gunned it to hu so it'd take up space in between

then just slide it into the hole