The dash at night

[willswitchengage]

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.

[MJK 24]

I love red illumination.  Why Audi and BMW dropped it is beyond me.  BMW was a little more orange I guess.

[Zelandeth]

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.

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...

[Cord Fourteener]

Mondeo mk3. It's not too ugly.

The camera does a really good job of increasing the brightness and saturation of the image!

[PhilA]

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

[4wheeledstool]

The street light reflection took away a bit of the grimness, but not all of it!

[Zelandeth]

15 hours ago, 4wheeledstool said:

The street light reflection took away a bit of the grimness, but not all of it!

Chevette?

[4wheeledstool]

4 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Chevette?

Cavalier - only GLS got fancy clocks with rpms, oil pressure, amps etc. 

[MJK 24]

[willswitchengage]

2 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

MAN? The red doesn't work for me.

[Cord Fourteener]

Seat Ibiza '10

BMW E46

[MJK 24]

44 minutes ago, willswitchengage said:

MAN? The red doesn't work for me.

Yes.  I quite like the red.  Same as the tail lights in front.  Anything but white!

[Sham]

2010 Skoda Octavia. Simple and easy to read.

2019 Suzuki Vitara. The main dash is really clear, but the buttons are small font and the red I find hard to focus on at night.

2011 Berlingo van. It's OK, not great but clear enough.

[Steve79]

88' Mercury Grand Marquis

Illumination levels akin to a  candlelit Victorian drawing room.

C- must do better (led bulbs me thinks)

 

[sutty2006]

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)

 

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 😂

[MJK 24]

The Marquis would look a lot better with the red warning lights out.  Pretty please!

[Zelandeth]

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.

[Steve79]

Warning light free

[MJK 24]

Awesome!  Is there no coolant gauge?

[Steve79]

Nope, no coolant gauge, just a check engine light which covers low oil/coolant. Its up to the driver to lift the bonnet/hood to find out which.

[Ghosty]

Civic Aerodeck:

[rwd]

19 hours ago, Steve79 said:

Nope, no coolant gauge, just a check engine light which covers low oil/coolant. Its up to the driver to lift the bonnet/hood to find out which.

Fit a gauge just to be on the safe side.  

[OM646]

W203 C220 CDI

B4 Audi 80 (i need to fix that polarizer film)

[Popsicle]

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

[OM646]

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 

[Macscrooge]

After months of forgetting to take photos for this thread, here is Management’s Shogun. 

[UltraWomble]

Similarly as my car has been in the garage here is the management's alhambra/sharan/touran/golf et al


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[Six-cylinder]

Small things amuse small minds, in this case it is my Beetle has a small red light on the underside of the mirror that illuminates the flower on my dash.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Rover 45

Quite a pleasant cluster, but not terribly exciting. I like the typeface.

[HMC]

17 hours ago, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

Rover 45

Quite a pleasant cluster, but not terribly exciting. I like the typeface.

Good timing on the picture, maximum display of warning lights.