A little trolling of the board's creator...while I tend to love the bluetooth dongle attached to the Frankfurt in my targa, the coupe is a track car and M471 clone, so no radio, and one needs the ability to remove everything for track sessions. While I won't use this set up for when the car is fully tarted up as a M471 clone, for now it is pretty amazing. Soon, I will not have any hearing as between my factory sport exhaust and the two JBL speakers, the car gets very loud.
The set-up is:
At rest...yes, I know the radio delete plate is a little ghetto without the leatherette...
The car thing just sticks to the delete plate where I glued the rare earth magnets in back.
And the set-up at work...(I have a tiny USB cable on order to make it more seamless).
And with the power on, the USB port has a voltage meter. I find this somewhat annoying, but it is fine - at least you know what is going through your system and if your battery is bad.
And then the JBLs in back...you do have to plan ahead when mounting these as access is limited if you have a roll cage plus a fixed passenger profi and a moveable passenger profi. I have been known to get lazy and just put them in the rear seat buckets, but again, the charge speaker has so much power I go weeks between charges and leave them mounted to the cage.
The set-up is:
- A carbone wireless charging pocket - mounted in the driver footwell where the pockets go on normal coupes' carpets (sorry no photo). I have the RS lightweight felt, so it was an easy install and you can't see it unless you are peering with your head in the footwell.
- Two JBL charge bluetooth speakers, mounted to my roll bar via fire extinguisher quick disconnects. I chose the JBL charges because they last 10 hours, so weeks go by without needing to charge. They sync with each other and the phone pretty quickly after turning them on. You can also charge a phone or tablet with them, which is nice if you're at the track and your phone battery is getting low. They are very loud and the sound is more than good enough when competing with my engine.
- One marine USB port, which is mounted to my radio delete plate.
- A spotify car thing, which attaches via rare earth magnets to radio delete plate (I glued the rare earth magnets to the backside of the radio delete plate). The car thing allows you to control your phone from the dash, which gives you full access to spotify, plus volume control (the big knob on the right). They've been upgrading the thing in the past few months and I'm hopeful it will start to display Waze, but one of the nice things of this set-up (which is the same with any bluetooth connection to your phone) is you can set your destination with Waze and get the audio prompts. I don't really use it for directions, rather the head's up on the 5-0 which makes it an essential compliment to a radar detector. Yes, you have to be a spotify subscriber...
At rest...yes, I know the radio delete plate is a little ghetto without the leatherette...
The car thing just sticks to the delete plate where I glued the rare earth magnets in back.
And the set-up at work...(I have a tiny USB cable on order to make it more seamless).
And with the power on, the USB port has a voltage meter. I find this somewhat annoying, but it is fine - at least you know what is going through your system and if your battery is bad.
And then the JBLs in back...you do have to plan ahead when mounting these as access is limited if you have a roll cage plus a fixed passenger profi and a moveable passenger profi. I have been known to get lazy and just put them in the rear seat buckets, but again, the charge speaker has so much power I go weeks between charges and leave them mounted to the cage.
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