Avis H3 rental, very good

[gc2488]

Hey everyone, my H3 order was held up
over 2 months because of 5-speed manual
transmission parts, and I was not being
kept informed very well, so I'm just going
to bag it for now -- maybe next spring
I'll get one.

In the meantime I rented an H3 from Avis
for a week-long vacation! Glad they're making
them available and I hope they keep competing
with Jeep and others nicely and pushing
the price down and volume up. I don't need
exclusivity, just functionality and style.

The Avis H3 I rented had only 300 miles on it
when I got it, and it has leather interior.
No diff lock. Wonderful ride and performance,
and 17 MPG on the first tank of gas
(134.6 miles took 7.74 gallons).

Have a look:
http://www.pbase.com/hummer2005a/h3silver

For example:

[gc2488]

Hey everyone, my H3 order was held up
over 2 months because of 5-speed manual
transmission parts, and I was not being
kept informed very well, so I'm just going
to bag it for now -- maybe next spring
I'll get one.

In the meantime I rented an H3 from Avis
for a week-long vacation! Glad they're making
them available and I hope they keep competing
with Jeep and others nicely and pushing
the price down and volume up. I don't need
exclusivity, just functionality and style.

The Avis H3 I rented had only 300 miles on it
when I got it, and it has leather interior.
No diff lock. Wonderful ride and performance,
and 17 MPG on the first tank of gas
(134.6 miles took 7.74 gallons).

Have a look:
http://www.pbase.com/hummer2005a/h3silver

For example:

[Hummer3]

Good news on the 17MPG. Just curious, how did the JD get in the pictures with guidance and camera's?

[gc2488]

>how did the JD get in the pictures

Oh, that was just on the camera with the others.
That's a robotics work project at my company,
actually setup as a de-mining tractor. It has the
diff lock option, infinitely-variable transmission
and off-road tires :-)

[DRTYFN]

So you ran your own antennas to the roof- what are they for?

[gc2488]

The antennas are for radio transceivers,
like for data on 144.39MHz and voice
on 447MHz linked to the Internet.

Speaking of which, does anyone know
if the OnStar GPS receiver involves an
NMEA position stream that can be read
by one's own equipment? Hope so,
that would be a big bonus.

[TimW]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by gc2488:
Speaking of which, does anyone know
if the OnStar GPS receiver involves an
NMEA position stream that can be read
by one's own equipment? Hope so,
that would be a big bonus. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yes. There are a couple of URLs out there talking about it, though none specific to Hummer's GPS receiver. Google.

[gc2488]

Thanks for the suggestion, TimW.
Excellent, I found several web pages
with instructions for using the GPS output
from the Onstar system, like these:

http://members.cox.net/onstar/

http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/15/45/

http://gps.hackaday.com/entry/1234000170038047/