I fucking hate digital LCD display speedometers that inevitably WILL break down over time, creating a problem that never existed since the invention of cars. Newer cars lean more towards it and I HATE IT.
You know what happens when LCD screens show the same area constantly changing between the same few images? They burn down to the display over time. The worst place ever to integrate it is a speed display. You know what has worked for years with no issue whatsoever? A fucking analog stick that points down what your speed is.
Analog speedos fail too actually, They’re slightly more complex designs usually so more things to fail, though the rates are still pretty low luckily.
Same. I love tech and all…really. But in cars? My last one broke shortly after warranty ended. 6000 bucks to replace it. When I was younger, the whole car did cost that. Now it was 6k. Plus 5k for the broken HUD. Which also meant a new windshield.
And what about 10yrs later, do you even still get a replacement for those?
Jeez. I really want back a handful of HAPTIC buttons. Nothing more. Buttons and LEDs. Not that silly blingbling touch shit that just breaks and needs your eyes on it. While driving 300kmh or so. Yeah sure.
i sold the first car i ever drove to the mechanic. i’m pretty sure he still lives near where i do because i see her on my bike rides and he just painted her yellow. i kind of want to buy her back and throw some electric motors and shit in her (she has t-tops. so much fun to drive).
Yes, because speedometers never broke or got misaligned in the history of automobiles, ever. Only once we started using LCDs did this occur…
They broke. But they could be replaced for some bucks for some dude who just did it in 5 minutes. Nowadays…see my post above. Also took a fucking week.
I replaced the gauge cluster in one of my cars due to this. Cost me basically nothing beside a trip to the junkyard. I wonder how these new giant LCD panels are like to replace as an owner.
It should be very easy to replace it (but i have no expirience specifically with cars, so idk if they make it harder than it should be)
pretty sure the materials costs are dirt cheap, as we see how cheap displays are these days. The cost is going to be how much the service center is going to upcharge you.
Oldschool speedometers occasionally have their issues too sure, but they didn’t outright slide off the screen…
The sticks were digitally driven for quite a while as well. Managed to short circuit a 2004 VW Passat’s electronics, the sticks started to point in random directions all over the place while the car was in motion. And I don’t mean shaking, just going to a random value and settling on it every 1.5 seconds.
Was very spooky.
I don’t know, I have a lot of old laptops with perfect screens, and usually some soldering dies first. My previous monitor’s inverter died, not the panel, it was perfect. Burn in is only a serious problem on oleds, rare on tft. Other parts will die before the screen in a car
Modern analog speedometers are just small servos, displaying digital data from the computer, actually an lcd has far less parts, far fewer point of failures
Other parts will die before the screen in a car
Yeah, your laptop ain’t gotta survive upwards of ~160 to 180 degrees Fahrenheit parked in the summertime sunlight. Heat not only kills babies and puppies, it also kills electronics…
apparently they use small stepper motors for the dials, it’s why there’s a homing sequence at the start (where all the dials go to 0)
Also the old way with a cable was always fucking up and getting stuck or just being way off. Digital ftw.
Yup, has multiple 80s VWs that had broken speedos a one point or another, and US old cars tended to have fluttering wildly inaccurate speedometers too. Have had good results with most stepper motor based garages do far but most of them are under 12 years old that ive seen.
Have some COMFORT, it’s dead center of the meme 😂🤣
At least in this cheap version of the dashboard they left the indicator lights separate from the screen for higher reliability.
(This is a BMW stereotype joke.)
