It does spark more though
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Does it spark as much as a Star Trek high-tech panel?
If not, it's not futuristic enough.
Speak for yourself. I'd love an easy to read screen.
Yeah, but the second one is much cheaper to make and appeals to people that think it costs more, so now we're stuck with this useless, tacky shit.
The second one is also far more readable. If it’s read only and behind the wheel, it’s strictly better imo.
I love a digital speedometer but dials as back up feel important
Gen Z: Can't read analog clocks. "What speed am I going? There are no numbers!"
True and based
Of course it doesn't spark, is electric
she is a very small and cute little sandwich
Basically nobody actually needs a tach taking up as much space as the speedometer.
RIP anyone that drives a manual, tows, or goes off roading.
On a more serious note I’d imagine they stick around for diagnostics and inclement weather(forcing the car into a particular gear). Since the space is already there they generally have a bunch of other gauges and crap inside of them (all the warning lights that are usually off).
I am not an off-road guy, but I drove a stick and towed heavy stuff forever. You don't need the tach if you have experience or ears. If you can't drive manual without a tach, you're a shit driver frankly.
The only reason I've ever used a tach is for break-in on a vehicle or for hypermiling.
Edit: before I went electric in 2017 and haven't looked back :)
Once you have experience yeah…I rarely look at the tach anymore. It’s the process of acquiring that experience that it’s still useful also stuff gets loud or your driver might be deaf. Just helped my sister do something and part of the reset procedure on her car was hold 2000 rpm for 60 seconds. They serve a purpose is all.
Oh yeah it's worth having a tachometer, but I don't know why you want one that takes up as much space as the speedometer on the gauge cluster. It seems gratuitous to me.
I use it because on my bike I need to set the correct minimum RPM after cleaning my carbs. Also sometimes I want to go faster than I should in 6th, a quick glance at the tach tells me how much headroom before redline I've got.
I've dailyed six manual cars and two of them didn't have a tach (both Fords?), and one of those was too old to even have a shift light. Honestly, even when I was new I barely looked at the tach when I had one anyway, and I didn't really start to look at until I learned how to really get good at rev-matching for heal-toe and dropping gears. I just shift by ear and ass like 90% of the time.
I mean, if you actually need an indicator, a shift light and a line of LEDs gets the job done better than a tach anyway, besides I've driven manuals that didn't even have a tach from the factory, it used to be pretty common. I'm pretty sure they stick around now because they make the car feel more sporty.
About the only time I actually needed the tach specifically was.. I actually legitimately can't think of one, nearly everything is by sound/feel and the times I needed specifics, like when troubleshooting, I would use an obd tool / tuner to see the exact values and plot them.
Nah man, if you see your tach wobble, you know you've got a carb jet issue, or dirty injectors.
No, I'm building a replacement unified speedo/tach for my motorcycle, the tach is huge and analog, speed is digital in the middle.