The dash at night

[Crackers]

On 13/11/2021 at 16:10, twosmoke300 said:

Yorkshire Up

Volkwagen Ey'Up

[Jack D]

1989 Mercedes W126 SEL 
 

[MJK 24]

I saw a W126 on the M6 in the very early hours this morning 

[Jack D]

Don’t think it was me, Did 250 odd miles on the M6 in it on the weekend though.  

3 minutes ago, MJK 24 said:

I saw a W126 on the M6 in the very early hours this morning 

 

[willswitchengage]

On 11/13/2021 at 4:10 PM, twosmoke300 said:

Yorkshire Up

I assume that's a revmeter on the left but what does the 'charge' bit mean where it looks like you can go negative?

[bub2006]

2003 ford focus in fetching ford green

[twosmoke300]

1 hour ago, willswitchengage said:

I assume that's a revmeter on the left but what does the 'charge' bit mean where it looks like you can go negative?

It’s when you back off the “ throttle “ or brake - it shows the regenerative breaking 

[Zelandeth]

5 hours ago, Jack D said:

1989 Mercedes W126 SEL 
 

They really didn't change that dash design for years did they...

[Datsuncog]

Garage forecourt shot of the Outback.

The illumination's a lot less green than the Forester's instrumentation - and looking dangerously modern, with all that digital odometer business...

[AxWomble]

Just arrived at work - Pug 106 1.5D. A very nice dashboard to look at, backlighting just-so. (And a good thing too, as there’s no rheostat!)

[AxWomble]

Just noticed that the clock is 12 hours out….had the battery out over the weekend! 

[Talbot]

8 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

They really didn't change that dash design for years did they...

If it's not broken...

[bub2006]

The modern. Countryman Cooper 1.5 turbo

[Inspiral_Mondays]

On 11/23/2021 at 1:27 AM, Zelandeth said:

They really didn't change that dash design for years did they...

I think Mercedes hit “peak dashboard“ from the early 80s to around 2000. Brilliantly clear, stylish and instantly recognisable. Materials used felt like they would last forever, well until you used the horribly cheap rheostat on the W124 at any rate. I had a W202 followed by a W203 as company cars back in the day. The W202 still had that heavyweight, slightly old fashioned, built from gurders feel about the dash. The W203 dash looked far more modern and had all the gadgets, but always reminded me vaguely of a Vauxhall.

 

[TrabbieRonnie]

An update on the old Surf's dash, since I 'fixed' the tailgate window...

Bit rude if you ask me...

[PhilA]

Far too many buttons, dials, screens. That's dialed down as dim as it goes, too.

Steering wheel/badge/gauges doing the standard modern "cheerful rabbit" face which appears in a lot of new cars.

[Garythesnail]

Is that Roland Rat in steering wheel form again?

[willswitchengage]

3 hours ago, PhilA said:

Far too many buttons, dials, screens. That's dialed down as dim as it goes, too.

Steering wheel/badge/gauges doing the standard modern "cheerful rabbit" face which appears in a lot of new cars.

Does anyone actually press all the buttons? Hire cars are terrifying. I pretty much just stick safely to winding the windows up and down. Even the radio and AC in new cars is too complicated for me!

Also does that redline at 7000? Nice

[PhilA]

4 hours ago, willswitchengage said:

Does anyone actually press all the buttons? Hire cars are terrifying. I pretty much just stick safely to winding the windows up and down. Even the radio and AC in new cars is too complicated for me!

Also does that redline at 7000? Nice

I had to go ask Manuel about some of them. Surprisingly, the radar safety doodad works, if you approach a vehicle too fast the car applies the brakes and slows down in a sane fashion to match speed.

Most of the "well used" buttons do only one thing, with temperature and fan speed being right there, and "Mode" to change where the air goes. Radio is typical Nissan with incomprehensible menus and options.

Yes, it redlines at 7000, not bad for a three-litre.

[cobblers]

On 11/23/2021 at 6:59 AM, AxWomble said:

 (And a good thing too, as there’s no rheostat!)

If you pull the blank out of the dash where it would be, the plug should* be there to add a dimmer.

[4wheeledstool]

Mk2 Cavalier, now everything works!

[chodweaver]

I'd forgotten the comforting feeling the backlighting of the clock and radio in a mk2 cav gives me.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Mmmmm... green. I swear it was getting dark when I took that photo!

[goosey]

Mercedes X164 

[goosey]

The “dash out at night”

heater core replacement that dragged on into the night, bonus points if you can guess the car 

[Barry Cade]

On 12/3/2021 at 8:16 PM, TrabbieRonnie said:

An update on the old Surf's dash, since I 'fixed' the tailgate window...

Bit rude if you ask me...

Does it ever go green?

[TrabbieRonnie]

40 minutes ago, Barry Cade said:

Does it ever go green?

Nah, it used to go out altogether when the boot was shut, but I had to disconnect that part of the mech to allow the boot handle to operate... and that wouldn't operate because the rear window no longer motors up or down to hit the limit switches.  

It's complicated, needlessly complicated!

[Zelandeth]

Overall one will have to wait as the heater controls are currently dead, however here's the instrument cluster of the new-to-me Caddy.  

Photo really doesn't do justice to how saturated a green the lighting is.

[83C]

Some nocturnal Mercedes action with added lack of colour:

 

[Zelandeth]

Having now sorted the non-working illumination for the heater controls I am now happy to add the Caddy here.

I do appreciate the ability on quite a lot of modern stereos like this one to dial in any colour you like so it matches the car.

Of course I noticed the light for the cigarette lighter was out about ten minutes after I took these photos... telling my OCD to bloody ignore that for a bit though as I've far, far, far more important jobs to attend to!

Must have been one of the last VWs made with the green illumination, pretty much everything else had started to move to the (in my opinion, bloody lovely) blue and red in the late 90s.