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On 2/4/2004 12:46 AM, Bill Pitz wrote:
| On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:54:36 -0500, kylevan@telus.net (Kyle
| Vanditmars) wrote:
|
|>Probably just idiot lights for idiot customers, unfortunately. Half the
|>people that buy Dakotas probably don't even know what those guages do.
|>There are a LOT of stupid people out there when it comes to vehicles. I
|>know, they come to my gas station. The best are the ones that come in
|>"my oil light came on, is that bad?" 3 liters of oil in the vehicle
|>later... I cringe when I think about what some cars must go through.
|
|
| That was the first thing I noticed about the new cluster as well. If
| that's the case, it really sucks. The more information you have on
| what your vehicle is doing the more aware you can be -- and the sooner
| you can take care of potential problems.
|
| Ideally I'd like to have the inside of my truck looking like something
| that resembles the cockpit of a large airliner. :-) Seriously,
| though, I'm wanting to add several extra gauges to the stock cluster
| on the current trucks. I'd really like to have a temp reading for the
| transmission fluid as its coming out of the transmission and as its
| coming out of the cooler.
*Except* that giving all that information to the owner goes against the
push by both the automakers and the government to wrestle control of
your vehicle away from you. Plus the "all those gauges are scary"
factor for the average person.
Eventually, you will have 2 gauges (speed and fuel level), a couple
specific warning lights that scream "stop this car now!" and then a
general "there's something wrong" light. And that'll be it.
| What really makes me sick are the cars that come with no tach.
| *shudder*
Not having a tach really weirds me out. My '99 had one even though it
was a slushbox and I just got used to it. It feels more right.
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