Anyone using the Eclipse GPS feature?

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

Sitting on the fence on whether to pick up the unit. How do you like it?

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[desertheat 10+ year member]

Mine showed up friday but I will not be able to pick it up until this coming friday. Looks like a toy but I like the auto volume feature of it and also the compass..

 

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

Anyone using the GPS-105 with a CD-5000? Just wonder if it is a nice feature to add on. Thanks!

 

[OldOneEye 10+ year member]

Take it with a grain of salt. My experience has been with a few Alpine navigation systems so bear with me.

I have the CD7000 with the GPS system. Frankly, I don't care for it. I don't want to have to look at my radio, its a bit of a distraction where mine is located. I wanted audio confirmation as well as a visual and it doesn't do that.

Might not be worth price of admission.

Juan

 

[XaznKewLguyX 10+ year member]

Dam, I was going to get the CD7000 with the GPS feature also.

 

[Abneriel 10+ year member]

Take it with a grain of salt. My experience has been with a few Alpine navigation systems so bear with me.
I have the CD7000 with the GPS system. Frankly, I don't care for it. I don't want to have to look at my radio, its a bit of a distraction where mine is located. I wanted audio confirmation as well as a visual and it doesn't do that.

Might not be worth price of admission.

Juan

I agree...I don't think I'll pick one up personally unless I can get the unit for

 

[Intercooler 10+ year member]

I don't mind stopping to take a look since usually at that point I am lost //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

 

[Motley 10+ year member]

I hear you have to download the maps from the eclipse I-Serve website. And you have to input a home and destination address before you get a map. That just sounds like too much work. I have the CD7000, and I was going to get the GPS unit, but I don't want to be downloading the maps ever time I want use the GPS.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

I hear you have to download the maps from the eclipse I-Serve website. And you have to input a home and destination address before you get a map. That just sounds like too much work. I have the CD7000, and I was going to get the GPS unit, but I don't want to be downloading the maps ever time I want use the GPS.

That's not the GPS. That is the area shot. It's like a mobile mapquest.

Global positioning satilite does not require mapping out a start and end destination on I-serve.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

so do you have to pay for it as a "service" ? i looked up the cd5000 and it looks like a nice headunit(**** 8 volts!).. and if it comes with free gps + mobile mapquest like mapping then im sold

 

[OldOneEye 10+ year member]

Area shot is dumb. You have to tell it you made a turn so it tells you the next street and where to turn).

With the GPS add on, it will knows that you have reached the turning point and then tells you the next turning point automatically. But it only knows a very limited area on your route because you set the route up front.

Juan

That's not the GPS. That is the area shot. It's like a mobile mapquest.
Global positioning satilite does not require mapping out a start and end destination on I-serve.

 

[tRiGgEr 5,000+ posts]

Area shot is dumb. You have to tell it you made a turn so it tells you the next street and where to turn).
With the GPS add on, it will knows that you have reached the turning point and then tells you the next turning point automatically. But it only knows a very limited area on your route because you set the route up front.

Juan

Would you rather read a piece of paper in your hand while driving, or push a button on your remote every turn? It's usefull. It saves me paper and ink. And time. Plenty of people find it usefull.

 

[OldOneEye 10+ year member]

I'm sorry, but if its a safety feature, and I have to try to read it off my head unit, I don't think its that safe to be honest with you. I have it, and have used it only a hand full of times. Again, my opinion about using it in my car.

Juan

 

[phyphoestilic 5,000+ posts]

I like the paper tho, I can hold it up to my face so I can see with one eye and look at the paper with the other :-D