It’s the absolute best option for off-road gps navigation. Download detailed maps with plotted courses. Every off-road race truck uses them.
That's awesome. I'm going to have to give it a try!
It’s basically a large screen purpose built navigation device. Lots of serious off-road guys use them. It’s for areas where phone service doesn’t exist. Think Baja…Maybe his bronco is fording deeper creeks than ours?
In all seriousness... This peaked my interest too. Is there another use for the HDS units? That would be cool.
I’m sure that could be done but the weight and size of the hds-9 would be a lot for the dash pic rail. I’m hoping for more substantial brackets. EXO requires a Lowrance type gps for their Baja runs and I’m highly considering attending but I need to add a couple of items to my truck including the gps. In all honesty there are multiple occasions I would have loved to have one available.
I had the same problem no good way to mount my GPS for Baja. End up using a iPad mini with a Garmin GlO 2 running Gaia. EXO allows these on the bronco runs since bigger units don’t fit well.
I’m going to check the dash over and see if I can figure a way to make and mount a bracket
These both look to be much more solid options, Thanks!I've come up with 2 solid options so far.
The first option is the RAM floor mount plate with an adjustable pedestal that's made for laptops. I've got one from my Gen 1 Raptor that I used for precision ag surveys with a Trimble RTK setup, so I bought a new floor plate for the Bronco and temporarily installed it with an HDS 12 from a boat. That unit is just too big, but it was fairly stable and it can be moved to a suitable location by rotating the arms. An HDS 7 or HDS9 would be a much better option for this bracket.
The second option is using @EIGHTLUG's Archetype Racing BYOD rail and BALLS. I got a new Garmin Tread XL Baja Race unit and mounted AR BALLS on the sides, then used 2 more AR Balls on the rail attached to a 67Designs Nano arm on each side. I've been driving around with it all week and it's solid with no vibration or movement. The only downside is that it covers a significant portion of the windshield, but it's not unusable.
I'm sure there are other mounting options out there, but those were the only 2 I could find that seemed practical with the limited space the Bronco provides.
