Digital Display Dashboards - Where ?

[tempir]

I am interested in replacing my old dashboard in a striker. It used the original gauges from the donor car.

I want to use a single digital display to replace all dials, but I am having trouble finding anything that does this.

Please point me in the right direction.

Are there good reasons why cars do not usually have digital displays ? Or why manufactures do not make digital displays.

[D-Angle]

One or two production cars in the 80s had them(thank you Night Rider!). I think the Astra GTE did, and a couple of Audis. IMHO they look a bit naff though. For something a bit classier you could have a look at www.dakotadigital.com

Justin

[Incorrigible]

You could try stack here expensive but very good by all accounts

[anonymous-user]

Stack seem to be one of the most popular, although it still has an analogue tachometer so might not be what you're after.

SPA do a digital dash.

Then there's this one built by a BEC racer (I believe): www.customautotech.co.uk/

Something like the S2000 dash would be nice though, I guess - www.burtmanindustries.com/s2000/s_dash.jpg

[dougc]

Toyota Yaris?

[zetec_s6]

www.etbinstruments.com

[Mr2Mike]

tempir said:

Are there good reasons why cars do not usually have digital displays ? Or why manufactures do not make digital displays.

Digital displays are good for displaying static or slowly changing values with good precision, but they are simply useless for displaying values that change quickly, such as RPM and speed. The digits jumping from one number to the next impart little trend information and are difficult to read at a glance. Analog scales are simply a better, more human friendly method of displaying these types of parameters.

I had 16v GTE, and to be honest I'd have been happy to break the display up with a sledge hammer if I'd have had a suitable analog replacement.

[anonymous-user]

That's why I like the S2000 digital display. For the rev counter at least.

Rather than displaying the numbers, it's got a number of coloured bars in an arc that light up just like the needle of an analogue dial.

Future developments seem to be moving more to digital TFT style screens. Recent Ford concepts (like the Visos - Capri thing) have got TFT screens with analogue dials displayed digitally, if you get my meaning. This way, they envisage the ability to download "themes" to your car to personalise the look and feel of your instrument cluster just like you can change the wallpaper on your computer desktop!

[tempir]

The TFT screen sounds a very good idea so the user can decide on what to display as digital and as dials.

Although you can imagine a world with ads popping up
over your dash !

The main thing i was looking for clear dash, which
www.dakotadigital.com seem to have good stuff on their site.






>> Edited by tempir on Tuesday 23 March 14:29

[stannerz]

I have a Digi-dash by ETB in my Aeon it seems to work very well. larch LED for speed readout and an LCD screen below with a massive range of readouts and alarms. Its also capable of data logging including lap times, 0-60 times etc etc. And a row of LED's for different revs that acts as a visual for shifting- large red LED comes on at your set shift point- mine is just below the rev limiter.

www.thekitcarworkshop.co.uk/

Are agents for them. Aeon could probably source them as could Fisher Sportcars.