LCD gauge with GPS and Bluetooth

[bobgrmkpro]

I was excited about Polaris's new Interactive Digital Display-4.3" full color, LCD GPS with maps, tracking, compass, engine diagnostics etc. until I found out that it was NOT available in the 20,000 options offered on Snow check for 2015. Well, OK, I'll add it on through accessories. Well the total price makes me think twice. In order to add the new gauge to a 2015 RMK PRO I need the dash goggle bag ($130.00), a special multi pin converting cable ($100.00), the gauge itself ($700.00)(totaling $930.00) not to mention that I'm buying the old gauge package ($400.00 estimate) that comes on the new sled that will be taken out and set on a shelf. The total dollars is well over $1,330.00 + sales tax if you consider the unused gauge that is replaced. What a disappointment. When I consider the free upgrades offered Snow check buyers such as: upgraded shocks (clickers -very nice) and I DO NOT HAVE TO BUY THE STANDARD SHOCKS AND TAKE THEM OFF, electric start ???????????? (adds 20 #'s and normally costs about $400.00 but free on snow check) why in the world would Polaris NOT offer their most desirable new item as a factory install like they do on the Switchback PRO-S and equip RMK riders with a great, exclusive, dash mounted GPS setup too? I don't know the percentage of RMK PROs that have or want electric start but none of my riding friends use it but most would LOVE to have the GPS. Let's put some logic into the 20,000 options and make it 20,001 options that includes a nice package for the LCD / GPS. COME ON POLARIS YOU CAN DO THIS. Give a $400.00 credit toward the GPS if electric start is not elected and don't charge for the regular gauge cluster if the GPS is ordered (another $400.00 reducing the charge to the Snow Check buyer down to a more reasonable amount if GPS is ordered. Don't hold back make it happen. Put together a nice package and send it by bulletin to the dealers who can tell their customers right now. Thank you.

 

[rmk727]

Where the heck you getting your prices? gauge lifter bag= 130 gps gauge 700 cable to hook up 100 thats 930 you get a warm place for your spare gloves plus its less than a gps for your boat good ones there are 2000 , then you take it along next sled and put your old one in. I'm for sure getting this one .

 

[jbunce]

If you scroll down to where it shows everything you have added the $925 includes everything required but when you order it looks like there are 2 bad options.

 

[LongHorn XC]

Just be aware, the GPS might not all that you think it is. It might be a trail map and that's about it.

I have spent a ton of hours creating my own boondocking maps. I highly doubt that I can install my own map backgrounds into this Polaris GPS.

Just some food for thought for those with your own maps like myself.

I also use a large screen GPS, just like Polaris's. I believe I'm the only one with this setup that I've had for 6 years now.

 

[xc6rider]

How often do you REALLY look at ur gauges? Go with factory, and typical aftermarket gps (proven units). Which you likely already have. Zero cost at this point..

Bluetooth... WTF is it even for????


Wait it out, find out what it actually has to offer...

 

[polarcat39]

Bluetoooth - that's cool... when I'm parked in the parking lot and "maybe" get a signal, I can read my texts and see my phone calls on the gauge display. Then again, when you're in the parking lot... all I'm thinking about is riding.

I rarely get reception on the mountain, nor do I care. As far as the GPS goes, I highly doubt it will let you pin locations, upload your own overlays, or even upload existing pin locations in your current GPS.

I sent some email about this and ALL it does is show your GPS location, but you can NOT mark it on the display.

I give Polaris a 9 out of 10 for innovation, but I'll wait till it uses a GVM interface so I can upload my existing maps. For trail riding, I see this as an invaluable tool.

 

[fuledya]

Bluetoooth - that's cool... when I'm parked in the parking lot and "maybe" get a signal, I can read my texts and see my phone calls on the gauge display. Then again, when you're in the parking lot... all I'm thinking about is riding.

I rarely get reception on the mountain, nor do I care. As far as the GPS goes, I highly doubt it will let you pin locations, upload your own overlays, or even upload existing pin locations in your current GPS.

I sent some email about this and ALL it does is show your GPS location, but you can NOT mark it on the display.

I give Polaris a 9 out of 10 for innovation, but I'll wait till it uses a GVM interface so I can upload my existing maps. For trail riding, I see this as an invaluable tool.

I agree - Harley Davidson is doing the same thing on their new baggers - it's marketing bs, I don't need all that fancy **** - and I'm a techy guy too, Civil Engineer, so I do like my gadgets, but not on my sled. Wi-Fi - what the hell do you need that for? And as posted, anyone who relies on a GPS already uses one, and has all their honey holes marked, so it doesn't turn me on a bit.
On another note, with the electric start, I don't want that on my mountain sled, why couldn't I use that $400 bonus on something I need - like a skid plate, scratchers, upgraded front and rear bumpers? I think they should allow you to use that money towards ACCESORIES!

 

[geo]

I`ve been riding the same areas for long time. It`s always nice to break in to something new and Google maps really was a great thing for me to discover these new spots in the summer while internetting lol.
So I started to carry a GPS a while ago.

This new gauge may be neat but there are way cheaper and IMO better options. I got a Samsung Rugby LTE this spring on my contract renewal. It sit`s in my pocket all day and I work in the dirt and answer it sometimes a 100 times a day. It`s fallen 20 feet into concrete manhole and once I got lucky and found it buried under 4 ft of dirt lol. Hate it compared to the flip but it is the way now and has proven very tough.
It goes with me sleddin now sitting in the same pocket it does all summer. Has better and quicker satellite hook up than my old Garmin. Carries every map I had and allows downloading of Google earth if going somewhere new. And old areas I never had reception before now have reception for regular phone calls to tell your buddies they should quit work and get out here lol. I don't take any special care with it just wipe of the snow and shove it back into the pocket.

It's a new world out there lol. Take advantage of it.

 

[rmk727]

ok hand held is a great option but the want is for ; like the guys in the horns that got lost in a snow storm and ran out of gas; 2 days in the woods, if you have the guage you can follow your track back and not run out of gas. like spot or an avy bag just good safety stuff to have along. for 1000.00 I'll stay in the cabin not a snow tent.

 

[Wyopowder]

Buy a garmin rhino and get your buddies to do the same way more useful and you can use it year around

 

[bobgrmkpro]

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[bobgrmkpro]

Thank you RMK 727 for the correction to my estimated numbers in my original post. Please reread my post and let me know if you still disagree. I have visited with our Polaris Rep and Polaris folks in Mpls. my concern. They all seem to get the idea that something could be done. Anyway, I have the 2015 ordered and the GPS coming too. I just feel there's a much less expensive way for Polaris of give those of us who want the GPS to get it for much less money. They at least figured it out with the shocks. They don't require us to buy the standard shocks in order to get the clickers. WOW such logic on that one but the GPS doesn't carry the same logical approach. The FREE electric start should be a credit toward any other option. I feel they offered that because only a small percent of Snow Check RMK's will take electric start. Nice if you want it but worthless to me.

 

[bobgrmkpro]

I have a Rhino 655 and my riding buddies do also. I just feel the dash mounted GPS in color and 5 or more times larger than my Rhino will be much easier and quicker to use providing it works like my Lowrance sonar tracking system that I use in my fishing boat. It's just that a 10" Lowrance would be a little clumsy on the dash of my RMK. I do have a bit of concern after reading the posts that answered my original post that the Polaris GPS may not a tracking device. It seems impossible that Polaris would come up with a lame GPS system in 2014 that goes backwards 15 years??????????? I'll be calling them tomorrow. The literature is not very descriptive about it. The 2015 Switchback Pro-S has it factory installed. A darn trail machine where there are signs telling you where you are plus trail maps etc. Hard to get lost on the trails compared to the off trail rider in overcast sky and wind blowing hard enough to cover tracks over quickly. If you haven't had that happen to you you're lucky but mt. veterans know that weather can change quickly in the mts. Let's wake Polaris marketing up to this real need and how they can attract buyers without costing them money and saving us money.