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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 09:20 PM
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Is there an adjustment(focus) for the HUD display? It seems awfully blurry and hard to focus on for me. I have cleaned the glass as per the manual but it didn't make any difference.
Is it time for me to have my eyes checked?
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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 09:24 PM
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I have the same issue, but I'm pretty sure it's my eyes. Getting older sucks...
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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 09:27 PM
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The adjustments for the HUD are:
Height
brightness
oil, temp, fuel, etc

Also carefully clean the area on the dash where the HUD image emanates from however You are probably correct, you need your eyes checked.
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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 09:58 PM
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Nooooooooooooooooooo!

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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 10:33 PM
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Unless you're the original owner and you know it to be so, check the windshield to see if it's the original, which is optimized for HUD. That could be part of the problem, but maybe not. Worth a check, at least?

How many fingers am I holding up?
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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 10:35 PM
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No focus adjustment on the HUD that I know of. Time for a vision checkup.
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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 10:50 PM
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We believe that there is no focus !


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Old Jan 24, 2007 | 10:58 PM
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As an experiment I put the wife's glasses on(not a very strong perscription) and guess what?

I can see clearly now the blurr is gone.

Time to pack up and head to Pearl Vision to get some cool glasses. Maybe there is a C5 Z06 frame available.
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Originally Posted by JMc
Unless you're the original owner and you know it to be so, check the windshield to see if it's the original, which is optimized for HUD. That could be part of the problem, but maybe not. Worth a check, at least?

How many fingers am I holding up?
OK.... Gotta ask...

Whats an "optimized " Windshield?
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Originally Posted by fst1
OK.... Gotta ask...

Whats an "optimized " Windshield?
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The windsheild on HUD equiped Corvettes had a thicker laminate beetween the glass on the bottom to better focus the HUD
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