Date:         Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:03:39 -0500
Reply-To:     ian Butler <ian@BLUEMOON.HPLX.NET>
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From:         ian Butler <ian@BLUEMOON.HPLX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Friday Question: What's Your "Dream Dash???"
Comments: To: kevin obrien <kevindobrien@YAHOO.COM>
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, kevin obrien wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> The Scenario:  You are installing a custom dash in a
> Vanagon...gonna trick it out with lots of gauges &
> goodies...
>
> What would you like to see in it?  :)

I'm going on a road trip, and I'm bringing.. a digital speedo, a properly
colored bar-graph tach, a water temp gauge, a gas gauge, an oil temp gauge,
an oil press gauge, a compass, a clinometer, a trip computer, and a Digitool
behind a cover plate (no need to get blinked at more than necessary.)

I've thought about new dash designs in the past, and I've pondered having
more things like head temperatures, water pressure, traction sensors, GPS,
etc. in my dream dash.  But as cool as those things would be, anything more
than a basic array of useful gauges makes it less Vanagon and more like the
bridge of the Enterprise.  "Computer, status report!"  "Gasket breach on
starboard head, section seven.  Venting coolant."

You know, having Majel Roddenberry on a road trip would be *cool*. :)

ian Butler / ian@bluemoon.hplx.net
'88 Scirocco 16v, '87 Syncro GL