Why doesn't my D40 have Bluetooth?

[Clarkey]

Hi all, hope someone here can enlighten me.

Have just bought a 2009 D40 STX. Through research, I thought that by virtue of it being an STX, it would have Bluetooth, but it doesn't!

Am I missing something here? Is it an option only, even on STX?

 

[Al]

pretty sure bluetooth was first introduced with the ST (more recent then the older STX). It was added to the 2010 onwards STX.

 

[Old.Tony]

Welcome to the forum!

It was optional on my 2009 STX, $650 worth from the dealer. I didn't get that - we had a satellite navigation system (Pioneer F900BT) installed instead.

 

[Al]

$650 for bluetooth? geez can see why you'd pass on that

 

[Bosshog]

Funnily enough it was also an option on my older 2008 ST-X. I negotiated and didn't pay what Tony was quoted.

 

[BravoBrad]

I found the factory bluetooth to be useless. I replaced my head unit completely.

 

[Rob titan]

my 09 STX titanium had bluetooth as standard but i have replaced with gps tv dvd reserve camera bluetooth head unit

factory bluetooth wasnt the best

 

[Bosshog]

My 'factory' bluetooth works brilliantly! Even talks to my iPhone which took some work but works fine now.

 

[ONLOCK]

iv got the factory bluetooth on my '10 st and it works great

 

[justdrinkbeer]

yup, factory bluetooth here too.

Works great

 

[Clarkey]

Thanks for the info....

 

[jjohn]

Not all phones marry with all Bluetooth devices. Eg; Navman GPS wouldn't read my phone properly, I emailed the co and they said, " yeah.......not on our list sooooorry." So even the co that makes em knows all things aren't equal. "Thanks that was ONE of the reasons I bought it." No worries, I told Uncle Gerry's elves @ Hardly Normal about it (2 day's old now) and they replaced it with a Garmin and it does work with my telling bone.
I'd say try to pair it up b4 you buy.

 

[Old.Tony]

Have to watch HTC phones too. They like to invent their own bluetooth. While there have been no reports of damage to the head unit by using a HTC phone, we continually had delays or failures to connect which we assumed was just "the way it was" until I bought a Samsung Galaxy SII. Perfect connects, fast response and best of all, I can be in a phone call while I'm driving, pull over and turn off the car and my phone still has the call.