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CVO Technical => Electronic Toys and Gadgets => Topic started by: HEADPAN62 on June 27, 2007, 11:08:21 AM

Title: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: HEADPAN62 on June 27, 2007, 11:08:21 AM
need some advice from my respected cvo members....has anyone installed either one of these kits and had problems or issues??.......has anyone have years of faithful service with ether one of these kits??..i can never make a disision and have it down to either biketronics  or hawgwired.......heard pros and cons on both kits so hopefully you guys can help me make a disision and get tihis project rolling....thanks headpan
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: Twolanerider on June 27, 2007, 11:35:27 AM
need some advice from my respected cvo members....has anyone installed either one of these kits and had problems or issues??.......has anyone have years of faithful service with ether one of these kits??..i can never make a disision and have it down to either biketronics  or hawgwired.......heard pros and cons on both kits so hopefully you guys can help me make a disision and get tihis project rolling....thanks headpan

A buddy local here got one of the HawgWired retrofit packages a year or so ago.  I put it in for him one Saturday afternoon.  Don't remember anything too eventful about the installation.  Straightforward and without unexpected hassles.  He's also not had any difficulties with it since then; or I'd have heard about it.

Jim has no doubt done more than everyone else here put together.  Whatever he says on the subject would be worth listening to.
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: HEADPAN62 on June 27, 2007, 11:38:21 AM
thatnk 2lane, I suppose jim is hd-dude??
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: erniezap on June 27, 2007, 11:42:53 AM
Jim IS HD-Dude.  He installed a 2 channel Hawg-Wired on my bike (as well as about 100 others).  I haven't had many issues, but the one that I had (blown speakers) was taken care of immediately with no hassle whatsoever.
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: kojak on June 27, 2007, 07:26:00 PM
No problems with HW so far.
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: The Bolvine Gigolo! on June 27, 2007, 08:46:02 PM
Jim IS HD-Dude.  He installed a 2 channel Hawg-Wired on my bike (as well as about 100 others).  I haven't had many issues, but the one that I had (blown speakers) was taken care of immediately with no hassle whatsoever.

I'm one of the hundred others Jim installed mine and Bandanagirl's I also blow a speaker was replaced immediately. If Jim decided to go with HW then it was because he felt it was the better system.

Don.........
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: HEADPAN62 on July 02, 2007, 10:05:30 AM
no stories of  biketronic installs ??...the way I would like to go is with the hawgwired mounting and install pieces,,,,,but use the biketronics plug for the auto volume control....hd-dude can you sell me what I need indavidually??
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: hd-dude on July 02, 2007, 11:57:00 AM
no stories of  biketronic installs ??...the way I would like to go is with the hawgwired mounting and install pieces,,,,,but use the biketronics plug for the auto volume control....hd-dude can you sell me what I need indavidually??

Sure can, I'll PM you my number.
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: HEADPAN62 on July 02, 2007, 07:32:55 PM
well ordered everything from jim/hawgwired today...full kit will be here in a few days....will post comments and install pics when installation is complete..ride on,headpan
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: HEADPAN62 on July 20, 2007, 04:07:02 PM
I missed the auto volume control big time.. within 20 minutes I thumbed the volume up and down 100 times....very noticable in stop and go traffic ...so I bought the biketronics harness and it was what the doctor ordered....got a refund on the hawgwired harness-20%..(dont agree with the -20% but live and learn..)...still get alot of skipping on the cd's though.....dont think its the mounting kit,,most likely nature of the beast....does do it prettyoften though........must be real smooth roads to not skip......in short I would go with hawgwired mounting and biketronics module...for the biketronics mounting kit is like a chevette next to a corvette..supierior harness with not so good mounting...and hawg wired has a superior mounting with a basic harness...in short if you listen to your tunes in stop and go traffic I highly sugest biketronics harness..and it is fully ajustable...on how much auto volume control is needed,,ride on ...headpan(just my opinion)
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: hd-dude on July 20, 2007, 06:59:55 PM
I missed the auto volume control big time.. within 20 minutes I thumbed the volume up and down 100 times....very noticable in stop and go traffic ...so I bought the biketronics harness and it was what the doctor ordered.... got a refund on the hawgwired harness-20%..(dont agree with the -20% but live and learn..)...still get alot of skipping on the cd's though.....dont think its the mounting kit,,most likely nature of the beast....does do it prettyoften though........must be real smooth roads to not skip......in short I would go with hawgwired mounting and biketronics module...for the biketronics mounting kit is like a chevette next to a corvette..supierior harness with not so good mounting...and hawg wired has a superior mounting with a basic harness...in short if you listen to your tunes in stop and go traffic I highly sugest biketronics harness..and it is fully ajustable...on how much auto volume control is needed,,ride on ...headpan(just my opinion)

Just to clarify, the product purchased was a kit and in purchasing the kit there is a discount. Since the HSA wire adapter was returned and the mounting parts were kept the kit price is not availible. A full refund of the price paid for the kit was given and the price for the individual parts (less the 10% site discount) was charged. There was not a 20% hit taken on the parts.
Title: Re: hawg wired vs biketronics
Post by: HEADPAN62 on July 29, 2007, 08:43:10 PM
ok, put a few hunderd miles on her again, this time I had downloaded most of my collection mp3 format...well the disk's I made in mp3 format dont skip at all..thought it was just a coincadence but put a normal cd in ,,and it skips as discribed earlier in this thread,,,put an mp3 formated disk in,,no skips at all,,not sure why,,anyway figred I'd post my findings....ride-on,headpan