Looks like I'll be ordering the new coastaletech GMX-320 lockpick, iPod pick, and Tellphone 5000vi package when it becomes available (in a week or so?).
They have video demonstrations of taking apart a Tahoe/Yukon dash and interior, but nothing obviously for the Enclave. Anyone been brave enough yet to try to access the radio and other parts of the center dash area? I'd rather not break a clip or warp something to the point a gap results trying to get the cover panels off the first time.
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BTW, for those wanting bluetooth, you might want to check out that combo mentioned above. Pricey, but it sure fits the bill. True voice commands with something like 10,000 named contacts, access of your phone's address book and voice tags (wish it were a SIM access profile technology, but apparently that is dying an early death), and the best part is automatic switching of sound and VIDEO so that you see the incoming number, number dialed, signal strength, battery life, call duration etc. on your factory display. Pretty cool... something even OnStar doesn't do that well (just gives you number and talk time on the DIC). Of course this only works with the Nav screen as the Tellphone 5000vi provides a video out that requires a true video screen to display - the upside being you don't need an aftermarket screen/control panel mounted somewhere in the interior (yuck!). And the take call/hang up buttons are on a tiny wireless remote unit that can be mounted or stored anywhere... center console, change tray in center, armrest, door pocket, side of center console, under dash, visor, etc.
The only thing I'd really like to accomplish is hiding the Tellphone mic behind either the OnStar mic perforations overhead or the interior temp sensor perforations below the ignition key. Hopefully I can get one of those two to work. If not, behind the center speaker grill might work out, but I'm not sure if the echo-cancellation can handle the source being that close to the mic.
Aside from that, my only beef with the new GMX-320 (and older versions, too) is that they can't automatically unlock DVD/XM/Nav/etc. A few button presses are required to unlock and relock (depending on what you want to do, you might just leave it unlocked). Apparently GM is now tracking vehicle motion not with any external signal from shifter, speedometer, throttle etc. but rather from the GPS tracking inside the navigation unit itself. To convince the vehicle you are stopped, you have to tell it to stop tracking GPS (by either disconnecting antenna or somehow hacking into command codes and telling it to stop, not sure which they are doing). So to input a Nav address you unlock that feature but it stops tracking vehicle position... obviously you have to relock it when you are done so it can update position and get on with providing directions. For unlocking XM and DVD in motion, you can just leave it unlocked - assuming you aren't currently using Nav too.
I'd rather not have to go through button combinations to do stuff I think should never have been locked (actually, I'd prefer my wife to not have to go through it - doesn't bother me as much, but I know it will annoy the heck out of her), but better than never being able to do that stuff in motion I guess. Worth it for the iPod interface, DVD on front screen in motion, and bluetooth auto-swithcing with video capability. Oh, and a couple of extra video inputs in case you want to connect the rear headrest DVD to the front (so you can watch something they play up front too), or a game console, or video iPod/Zune/etc., or baby camera, etc.
First things first though... anyone ripped apart their shiny new Enclave yet? >
They have video demonstrations of taking apart a Tahoe/Yukon dash and interior, but nothing obviously for the Enclave. Anyone been brave enough yet to try to access the radio and other parts of the center dash area? I'd rather not break a clip or warp something to the point a gap results trying to get the cover panels off the first time.
hno:BTW, for those wanting bluetooth, you might want to check out that combo mentioned above. Pricey, but it sure fits the bill. True voice commands with something like 10,000 named contacts, access of your phone's address book and voice tags (wish it were a SIM access profile technology, but apparently that is dying an early death), and the best part is automatic switching of sound and VIDEO so that you see the incoming number, number dialed, signal strength, battery life, call duration etc. on your factory display. Pretty cool... something even OnStar doesn't do that well (just gives you number and talk time on the DIC). Of course this only works with the Nav screen as the Tellphone 5000vi provides a video out that requires a true video screen to display - the upside being you don't need an aftermarket screen/control panel mounted somewhere in the interior (yuck!). And the take call/hang up buttons are on a tiny wireless remote unit that can be mounted or stored anywhere... center console, change tray in center, armrest, door pocket, side of center console, under dash, visor, etc.
The only thing I'd really like to accomplish is hiding the Tellphone mic behind either the OnStar mic perforations overhead or the interior temp sensor perforations below the ignition key. Hopefully I can get one of those two to work. If not, behind the center speaker grill might work out, but I'm not sure if the echo-cancellation can handle the source being that close to the mic.
Aside from that, my only beef with the new GMX-320 (and older versions, too) is that they can't automatically unlock DVD/XM/Nav/etc. A few button presses are required to unlock and relock (depending on what you want to do, you might just leave it unlocked). Apparently GM is now tracking vehicle motion not with any external signal from shifter, speedometer, throttle etc. but rather from the GPS tracking inside the navigation unit itself. To convince the vehicle you are stopped, you have to tell it to stop tracking GPS (by either disconnecting antenna or somehow hacking into command codes and telling it to stop, not sure which they are doing). So to input a Nav address you unlock that feature but it stops tracking vehicle position... obviously you have to relock it when you are done so it can update position and get on with providing directions. For unlocking XM and DVD in motion, you can just leave it unlocked - assuming you aren't currently using Nav too.
I'd rather not have to go through button combinations to do stuff I think should never have been locked (actually, I'd prefer my wife to not have to go through it - doesn't bother me as much, but I know it will annoy the heck out of her), but better than never being able to do that stuff in motion I guess. Worth it for the iPod interface, DVD on front screen in motion, and bluetooth auto-swithcing with video capability. Oh, and a couple of extra video inputs in case you want to connect the rear headrest DVD to the front (so you can watch something they play up front too), or a game console, or video iPod/Zune/etc., or baby camera, etc.
First things first though... anyone ripped apart their shiny new Enclave yet? >
