Crackers Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 On 13/11/2021 at 16:10, twosmoke300 said: Yorkshire Up Volkwagen Ey'Up twosmoke300 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack D Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 1989 Mercedes W126 SEL MJK 24, Barry Cade, mat_the_cat and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJK 24 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 I saw a W126 on the M6 in the very early hours this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack D Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willswitchengage Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 2003 ford focus in fetching ford green Missy Charm, Jack D, Datsuncog and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 5 hours ago, Jack D said: 1989 Mercedes W126 SEL They really didn't change that dash design for years did they... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datsuncog Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 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... Lanciaman and willswitchengage 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxWomble Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 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!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxWomble Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Just noticed that the clock is 12 hours out….had the battery out over the weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 8 hours ago, Zelandeth said: They really didn't change that dash design for years did they... If it's not broken... Shite Ron, Barry Cade and Jack D 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bub2006 Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 The modern. Countryman Cooper 1.5 turbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspiral_Mondays Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 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. Barry Cade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrabbieRonnie Posted December 3, 2021 Share Posted December 3, 2021 An update on the old Surf's dash, since I 'fixed' the tailgate window... Bit rude if you ask me... willswitchengage, Dick Longbridge, goosey and 5 others 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garythesnail Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 Is that Roland Rat in steering wheel form again? PhilA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willswitchengage Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 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 and Garythesnail 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted December 22, 2021 Share Posted December 22, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4wheeledstool Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Mk2 Cavalier, now everything works! mat_the_cat, adw1977, Barry Cade and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 I'd forgotten the comforting feeling the backlighting of the clock and radio in a mk2 cav gives me. cobblers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnoyingPentium Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Mmmmm... green. I swear it was getting dark when I took that photo! crad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Mercedes X164 crad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 The “dash out at night” heater core replacement that dragged on into the night, bonus points if you can guess the car willswitchengage, Skcat and AnnoyingPentium 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cade Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 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? mat_the_cat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrabbieRonnie Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 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. crad, Coprolalia, LightBulbFun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
83C Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Some nocturnal Mercedes action with added lack of colour: AnnoyingPentium 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 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. mat_the_cat, nacho man, AnnoyingPentium and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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