We've already recommended a good dozen gauge kits for owners of all vehicle types looking for the nitty-gritty readouts on their car's mechanical and electrical systems. But there's always more. These ...

You want the classic car, of course, and you may want vintage FE horsepower. That's perfectly acceptable, but when it comes to maintaining your vehicle's vitals, there are more accurate instruments on ...

Few things are more vanilla than some of Chevrolet’s instrument clusters from back in the day. Classic Chevy Impalas and Novas, to mention just two examples, sported boring horizontal-sweep ...

Automotive gauges are simple and have changed little in the last 100 years. Understanding how they function can make troubleshooting a snap. Some background on the basic principles of gauge operation: ...

As much as we like wrenching on our own cars, there are just some parts of an old Mopar that it makes sense to let somebody else repair. One of the items that we just don't have the patience, tools, ...

The instrument clusters of today's cars show a clear trend away from electromechanical pointer instruments and toward solutions with significant focus on graphical displays. This paper provides an ...

If you are to have any success with a performance car, you need information—the more the better. Much of this information is locked away under the hood, just waiting to be let out. And a good set of ...

Digital gauges first started showing up in 1980s cars to varying degrees of success. Automakers pushed hard for them, but the trend all but died in the 1990s. In the 21st century, though, digital ...

I bought my used 2000 Nissan Xterra almost three years ago. Every once in a while it did this weird thing where all the dashboard functions froze. The tachometer, speedometer, temperature gauge, fuel ...

As a driver, there are few parts of a car you look at more than the instrument cluster. Your attention there is divided among occasional glances at the speedometer and tach, and if you’re really fancy ...