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Factory Boost Gauge; Accurate?

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A friend says that his tuner told him to change the boost gauge in his F150 Lightning because it was sadly inaccurate. Do we know how accurate our gauges are? I couldn't find much in the way of opinions and/or comparison data.
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Its pretty accurate, if you have an AP you can run the boost gauge on that and run the text version of the boost gauge in the center cluster.
 
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I'm assuming when you use the initialism "AP" you're referring to the Cobb device, yes?
 

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Yes, a Cobb Access Port
I have mine mounted and have the boost pressure on display.
I would say that the factory gauge is pretty accurate, maybe off by 1 psi on the high end.
 

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or... you can get yourself an odb2 bluetooth transmitter pretty cheap and just run the Torque Pro app on your phone if you do not have an access port. I tend to assume most EBM owners are tuned and therefore have some sort of hand held that has some gauge functionality. =)

The only thing I would say about the stock gauges is they tend to be on the slow side on polling. I noticed my boost gauge in txt form is a hair behind my AP in numbers but not off technically. May be the interface or processing of the data. The AP being a dedicated device is probably faster since it only does a handful of things.
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