Hey, I was sitting in my car the other day, I often spend my lunches with her, and starting thinking...What ever happened to boost gauges, temp gauges, and stuff along those lines? I seem to remember those things being standard in most cars. Voltage gauges, the works. I can't recal the last time I owned a car with more than RPMs/Speed and sometimes Gas (lights don't count, I like the needle). How difficult is it to install these things and keep it from looking tacky, burrito-like (no offense), or just sloppy?
A Scangauge 2 just plugs into the OBD2 connector and gives you all kinds of data. ScanGaugeII : Linear Logic - Home of the ScanGauge Cravenspeed has a lot of different options for gauges, from plug ins, to old style dial gauges with their own senders. MINI - Gauges/Gauge Mounts - CravenSpeed Online Dave
The Cravenspeed /Marshall Gauges are awesome! They can set you up with EVERYTHING you need for just about any gauge you actually need... And they look factory! I have a set waiting to go in my car along with a Scan Gauge II
Actually, both my cars have the standard fare and the new one on the way probably has too much (too many gauges in too small an area) I prefer Nathan's setup. If you really want to keep an eye on your engine, having boost, EGT, water temp, and voltage gauges should be minimum, and perhaps even air/fuel just because. I subscribe to "more is more", not less is more. As a driver, I want to know what my vehicle is doing at all times so I can head off a problem before it gets any bigger. I don't really care who approves or disapproves of my vehicle when they look inside, it wasn't built for them anyway.
I think that at the minimum, a car should have water temperature and oil pressure gages. Why would you want to know the exhaust gas temperature?
Since you took this picture, have you added blood pressure, glucometer, calorie counter and digital scale? :biggrin5:
Yes and no. The gauges are no longer on my car. The a-pillar was sold off to someone that thought they would make them for sale. That never happened. The gauges went on ebay. As to the blood pressure, glucometer, calorie counter and digital scale. BP is done often enough at physical therapy and cardiac rehab that I know pretty much what it is by the way I feel. Glucometer, I have 3, one to carry around in my man purse, aka the MINI branded rucksack, one in the house, and a backup. Calorie counter, I don't bother. portion control is the method. Digital scale I have had for years before I had a MINI. Since you asked. In the car now the only added gauges are boost and air/fuel along with the "heads up" thing I have that shows MPH and RPM.