GPS speedo retrofit to older speedo face?

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by BonzoHansen

My gps speedo never loses signal except maybe very briefly under wide overpasses and such. Certainly nothing bothersome.

In Oregon or other mountainous areas it can be. Even my Garmin 276c with remote antenna will occasionally lose reception on the way to the coast or heading up into the Cascades mountains. Also in major metro downtown areas with tall buildings interfere with satellite reception. Really depends on the region you typically drive in.

[samckitt]

Originally Posted by SSLance

For just a few dollars more you can get the whole Dakota Digital Dash which is basically plug n play and gives you today's electronic gauges for everything while retaining that stockish look.

Have you seen the pictures of the new colors, black face, white numbers, and red needles... They look fantastic!

I have not seen the new look. If they get them to look like stock gauges I will be all over it.

If I remember it is a bit more than a few dollars difference. $200ish vs $700ish.

[CarlC]

Redline Gaugeworks can convert a mechanical speedometer to electrical to use the PCM/VSS. Shannon can also renumber and retick as well.

Both of these were reworked. The speedo changed to use VSS and from 120 to 160mph. The tach was also reworked using modern VDO parts and the redline increased.

[flomofo]

Their new system (Dakota I believe...) keeps working without a signal, then just updates itself whenever it can.