My dreams have been crushed (3 gague center cluster for XKR) /madface
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Frog, you can buy a complete elm dash here: Jaguar XK8 / XKR Elm Veneer Standard Wood Kit (RHD) [Jaguar XK8 / XKR] - £695.00 : Myrtle Productions, fine wood car interiors and luxury steering wheels
the dash is bookmatched so it might not look right if you were to replace the center only.
the dash is bookmatched so it might not look right if you were to replace the center only.
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I keep coming back to this picture and staring...
The Nav unit is really the one thing I dislike about my XKR and the 3 gauge, especially the analog clock is one thing I really love about my XK8. Thank you for making my desires a reality. I had already ordered the Mina 6 ring set...
The Nav unit is really the one thing I dislike about my XKR and the 3 gauge, especially the analog clock is one thing I really love about my XK8. Thank you for making my desires a reality. I had already ordered the Mina 6 ring set...
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I keep coming back to this picture and staring...
The Nav unit is really the one thing I dislike about my XKR and the 3 gauge, especially the analog clock is one thing I really love about my XK8. Thank you for making my desires a reality. I had already ordered the Mina 6 ring set...
The Nav unit is really the one thing I dislike about my XKR and the 3 gauge, especially the analog clock is one thing I really love about my XK8. Thank you for making my desires a reality. I had already ordered the Mina 6 ring set...
My pleasure. I am glad I can pay back to the forum.
After over 30 years in the corporate world, and dealing daily with the mind numbing complexity of today's systems, doing these small projects for the forum reminds me of the simple love of technology that brought me into engineering in the first place.
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Amazingly, the voltmeter is also stepper motor driven. My guess is Jaguar thought their customers would get nervous and bother the dealers with fluctuations in voltage and oil pressure...so the computer smooths them out and effectively turns the meters into idiot lights with pointers.
so is there any way of getting the original gauges to provide a more accurate reading?
I never really liked the look of the nav screen, but am disappointed that they only ever show one reading ( except the time clock lol)
Jez
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Please contact me for notification on my website: www.thejagwrangler.com
Also see more discussion on the topic in this thread: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...e-gauge-62813/
Last edited by WhiteXKR; 03-24-2012 at 08:43 PM.
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Yes, it is working well. It is basically a tiny purpose built microcomputer (running almost 1000 lines of C program code) that mounts on the instrument cluster and commandeers the temperature and oil pressure stepper motor gauges. It reads digital coolant temperature data direct from the instrument cluster and if you have the oil pressure guage, an optional oil pressure sensor is added near the oil filter.
It also adds an audible alarm during over temperature or low oil pressure fault conditions (which can be muted with the button at the end of the turn signal stalk).
There is also a really cool feature that lets you play back the max. temperature and minimum pressure from the last 60 engine runs stored in non-volatile memory to help spot slowly developing problems.
As for all my products, extra attention will be given to ease of installation and pricing will be reasonable.
Here is a photo of the prototype. The final version will look a bit different, but fairly similar.
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Last edited by WhiteXKR; 03-25-2012 at 09:13 AM.
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Absolutely!...I have a working prototype on my car now. I expect to be in production with this upgrade sometime in May.
Please contact me for notification on my website: www.thejagwrangler.com
Also see more discussion on the topic in this thread: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...e-gauge-62813/
Please contact me for notification on my website: www.thejagwrangler.com
Also see more discussion on the topic in this thread: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...e-gauge-62813/
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