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    Default after market guages, what's good?

    i've got a 1 inch aftermarket oil pressure guage and sender, and from about 2 months after installation it gave stupid readings, it bounces around and it seems to be totally cactus.

    i'm looking at getting a new one on ebay, but i'm not sure what brands are decent and what brands are crap, like mine.

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    autometer pro-comp electric oil pressure.


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    Speco are spose to be alright from what i've seen, and they dont hold the ENOURMOUS price tag of some other brands, thats if you dont wanna spend HEAPS

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    speco are alright. the look of them are pretty averge. and their monster tach looks fair cheap. id stick to autometer. got a wide range to choose from plus a good history. only the price of them is bs.
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    i got speco in mine. the speco tachos do look average, i dont have one though. the smaller gauges look good though, they have the simple look similar to the autometer ones

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    Quote Originally Posted by pow3rslave View Post
    i've got a 1 inch aftermarket oil pressure guage and sender, and from about 2 months after installation it gave stupid readings, it bounces around and it seems to be totally cactus.

    i'm looking at getting a new one on ebay, but i'm not sure what brands are decent and what brands are crap, like mine.
    what type of gauge is it? I may know whats wrong with it if its one that goes black or chrome when you switch it off, drift ignite i think there called



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    I have an autometer ultralite air/fuel ratio gauge, looks nice, works good. Fair pricey tho.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banks_vz View Post
    what type of gauge is it? I may know whats wrong with it if its one that goes black or chrome when you switch it off, drift ignite i think there called
    yeah it's a drift one, but not one that goes black or chrome.
    it's got multi coloured backlights and as well as bouncing around and giving (hopefully innaccurate readings, another crazy thing it does is that if i turn the wipers on, then turn them off just as they reach the bottom (like just doing one wipe) the colour light seems to change one colour forward in the colour series.

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