Headset Harley Rant
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Cruiser
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Headset Harley Rant
So, I bought the Road Glide last year. I installed the Wim and bought myself a Sena. It says right on the brochure that the head unit is Bluetooth compatible, so what can go wrong. What a fantastic thing to have..... right?
Fail.
So now the good folks at Harley Canada are telling me that nope, you have to buy the Harley Sena for this thing to work. My problem with all this is, show me where (other than buried in the back of the fine print) it tells a new potential customer about this? They splash the ability to connect all over the advertising, but fail to tell u the details. I have never heard of a car that needs a BMW (or any other brand) phone to work with their cars.
Very dirty and cheap a$$ Harley Mothercorp.
Rant over. And pls dont tell me Caveat emptor.... grumble.
Fail.
So now the good folks at Harley Canada are telling me that nope, you have to buy the Harley Sena for this thing to work. My problem with all this is, show me where (other than buried in the back of the fine print) it tells a new potential customer about this? They splash the ability to connect all over the advertising, but fail to tell u the details. I have never heard of a car that needs a BMW (or any other brand) phone to work with their cars.
Very dirty and cheap a$$ Harley Mothercorp.
Rant over. And pls dont tell me Caveat emptor.... grumble.
Road Master
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From: Providence Forge, VA
There are very, very long threads about this all over this forum -a few of which I started. Honestly, you are better off completely bypassing the WHIM and getting a better wireless headset such as a Cardo PackTalk. Of course, depending on the current configuration of your radio, this may not be without some initial challenges in getting CarPlay to work.
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Officially Harley worked with Sena to develop propriety audio for better fidelity. This only works with HD headset to Whim. Unofficially, , yeah they tried to force people to buy full HD. This really is old news. Either replace the WHIM with something like full Sena or get the HD headset.
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Officially Harley worked with Sena to develop propriety audio for better fidelity. This only works with HD headset to Whim. Unofficially, , yeah they tried to force people to buy full HD. This really is old news. Either replace the WHIM with something like full Sena or get the HD headset.
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Cruiser
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I bought a Sena SRL2 which mounts to my Shoei internally and is designed for this helmet. Thinking that if a Harley Sena works, then why shouldn’t this Sena work. And that’s the irritating part....it’s the same damn manufacturer, but Harley had them put in a restriction so that only Harleys ugly external system works.
This is just slimy I tell ya.
This is just slimy I tell ya.
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From: North of Hell, South of Heaven
I purchased the HD Sena 30k. I couldn't get it to work properly (probably me), but the real problem was that my Mac wouldn't recognize it no matter what I did. I now have a Sena 5s and I'm still having odd issues, but at least my Mac recognizes it andI was able to update the firmware. I don't have the WHIM. I'm just trying to get it to operate properly with mi iPhone.
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I purchased the HD Sena 30k. I couldn't get it to work properly (probably me), but the real problem was that my Mac wouldn't recognize it no matter what I did. I now have a Sena 5s and I'm still having odd issues, but at least my Mac recognizes it andI was able to update the firmware. I don't have the WHIM. I'm just trying to get it to operate properly with mi iPhone.