Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 00:00:51 -0500
Reply-To: john Lauterbach <john@JHL.MGACOXMAIL.COM>
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From: john Lauterbach <john@JHL.MGACOXMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: digital dash
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Where can one obtain such a digital dashboard? My Son turns 16 next
June, and I am making a list of things that need to be done to my '84
Vanagon before his birthday. It currently has one of the "late-model"
clusters that were on sale around 1999.
John
On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 09:14 -0800, Alistair Bell wrote:
> Bob,
>
> there have been a few different dash cluster installs, notably Frank G.’s install and I have pics and description of that on my blog (http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/vanagon-frank-g-s-instrument-cluster-mod/).
>
> That one is not flush mounted, but here is a link to a german site with a couple of more flush mounted installs (golf 3 and 4 dashes in vanagon)
>
> http://home.arcor.de/nolan/tachokonverter/Grimm.htm
>
> note if you look around that site you will find a converter board to help with electronic gauge installs.
>
> now the subject of glare on windscreen - yup, i think that might be an issue. I can see a bit of light on windscreen from stock set up. the light bounces off the bottom surface of the recessed area in cluster and hits the windscreen. At first glance it is hard to believe that the angles would allow that to happen, but if you put a bit of black cloth on the lower recess area the reflection is eliminated.
>
> alistair
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 3, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > RE: Digital Dash
> > Mush like the 'all glass' cockpit/dash in my '90 T-Bird daily driver.
> > Would love to transplant into my '90 Vanagon. That is until (and it has
> > happened to me) the whole thing goes black! But great display of
> > everything I like to monitor.
> >
> > The feature I like about this is the flush mounting. I've considered having a Jetta/Golf/Passat
> > newer dash put in my van, not so much for how great the readouts look as how much easier
> > they are to see when they are flush with the face of the dash pod. No idea how this would
> > affect vision through the windshield at night, whether there would be reflection?
> >
> > Bob
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