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I really enjoy this thread so thought I would add my own effort. I have probably done about 300 miles in nine years of Jag ownership - I really ought to pull my finger out and get a new ticket. However, there is plenty of pleasure in just sitting in the thing, with its  smell of old car leather and the spectral green glow from the dash.

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Rover 200 diesel. Nice and simple with a sensible typeface like all Japanese cars of the era (I assume the dash was a Honda part). Why do so many new cars share a printing press with tacky primary school literature? There is a light leak in here somewhere though which leads to the red background hue and a slight cheapness feel.

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7 minutes ago, willswitchengage said:

Rover 200 diesel. Nice and simple with a sensible typeface like all Japanese cars of the era (I assume the dash was a Honda part). Why do so many new cars share a printing press with tacky primary school literature? There is a light leak in here somewhere though which leads to the red background hue and a slight cheapness feel.

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Don't these use a combination of white backlighting for the dial faces but a red front light for the pointers?  So the red tinted light on the front of the panel is intentional...

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Not too bad for a modern. The center display can be made a lot less cluttered too.

Speedometer is useless, the needle is over 5mph wide... It's accurate to look at to the nearest ten, which would get you stopped in a lot of places. Handily they duplicate it at the top of the screen, defeats the purpose.

 

Phil

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10 minutes ago, Steve79 said:

88' Mercury Grand Marquis

Illumination levels akin to a  candlelit Victorian drawing room.

C- must do better (led bulbs me thinks)

 

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The dash light can be dimmed, think you turn the headlight switch end to do it. Unsure if LEDs can be dimmed? Dunno. Always loved the 80s green 😂

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Very nice... though that stereo needs to be dealt with.

One of the main reasons for choosing the one I put in my last Saab was that it allowed you to dial in pretty much any colour so it was possible to almost perfectly match it to the dash illumination colour.

The warning light style there is pretty funky, can't recall seeing that style on anything else.  Though Jag did use a similar idea with a lit border around a lit symbol in the late 70s/early 80s...was on a black field though so you couldn't see the symbol unless lit.

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58 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

Some decent miles, well km's, showing on the Merc.

But still a good motor so far, a really good daily driver

 

Meanwhile the Audi only shows like 335000 because some years ago the odometer quit working and it only got fixed at a later date 

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