Welcome to Elio Owners! Join today, registration is easy!
You can register using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, just click here.Has anybody ever not purchased a vehicle because they didn't like the gauge cluster?
Unfortunately most gauges on cars now are fake anyway. Dealers/manufacturers got tired of explaining that pressure and temperature gauges are supposed to move during the ordinary course of driving a car, so they set the gauges up so they don't move until things go very bad. Notice how they don't have actual numeric markings? They are nothing but glorified idiot lights to sucker people into thinking they are getting "sporty".
For example, the coolant temperature gauges are heavily compressed. The will get to the middle at about 180°
and stay there until 230°-240°. For most cars, by the time the gauge shows "hot", damage is already being done. Useless.
On some newer cars, the gauges are really fraudulent. The oil pressure gauge on the RX-8 is a total fraud. The vehicle doesn't even have an oil pressure sensor! Fortunately the Mazda Rotary engine has an extremely reliable oiling system.
This is why track junkies always add real gauges to vehicles.