what's the cheapest and best way to install guages into my car for the features most other cars have, but VW left off?
i saw a screen mounted in a radio device cubby-hole. but i want something cheaper, and more simplistic.
i was thinking along those lines, but i have an airbag there. i would like for it to stay there. or does the Apillar go over that, without disrupting the AB mechanism?
Depends which gauge pod you buy, and whether you make the mistake of drilling holes through the airbag assembly during installation. In any event, it's probably a good idea to use epoxy to help hold the pod in place, to greatly increase the amount of force needed to pop the pod off the airbag cover in a crash. The airbag will still work; it comes out from the side of the pillar closer to the door than the windshield, thereby smashing the pod into the windshield instead of your face.
This will cost some money, but I am thinking the only truly satisfactory option is to replace my single-DIN Monsoon head unit and my single-DIN in-dash CD player with a single-DIN combined radio/CD head unit, which would then free up one DIN for a triple gauge set (oil temperature, oil pressure, boost). The other option is to replace the in-dash CD player with a wayback-mounted CD changer.
you could dump the in dash player for an MP3 device and an AUX input, freeing up a DIN spot also.
just as...not free as the changer, but another option.
search for gauges. i was looking through them and found an electronic multi gauge posted. i'd find it but i don't care to look again, and it wasn't cheap
BUT, depending on what you're looking to monitor, it may be an end all solution for you. :thumbup:
What drilling is needed? The lines from the pillar pod run down behind the dash and the pod gets super-ultra-mega glued onto the existing a-pillar cover.
Someone (ABD?) made a boost gauge that replaces the headlight switch.
But then you have to put that switch somewhere...
Also - isn't there a "pod" that mounts on the steering column?
But that obscures the drivers display - and I think those are 1 or 2 gauge.
I'm very pleased w/ my dual steering column pod. Contrary to the photos below, the only part of the instrument panel that's significantly blocked is the clock on the left.
Thanks for the repost of your pictures, Patrick. I had forgotten about your setup, and it does indeed appear satisfactory. Who was your parts supplier, and did you happen to compile a list of needed parts, such as a T-fitting for the oil pressure sender?
ok, say (hypothetically) i were to go out and buythe APillar like that, righ now.
i get it home.
then how would i install it?
where would the sensor wires go?
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