Sort of disappointed with the digital dash

[YOLO]

The Shelby GT350 never had a Digital Dash, must be a reason?

A real car, with an NA 526HP engine, Manual trans and Analog gauges.

I'm ordering a New 2019 and if has a Digital Dash I'm gonna be pissed.

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[RichBrew]

The Shelby GT350 never had a Digital Dash, must be a reason?

A real car, with an NA 526HP engine, Manual trans and Analog gauges.

I'm ordering a New 2019 and if has a Digital Dash I'm gonna be pissed.

If you ORDER a car, and end up with an option that you don't want, you're doing it wrong.

 

[michail71]

Again, if you would read through all of the posts, you may understand how the comments were made in reference to another persons quoted post. But you can’t seem to understand how that works or maybe your just confused. I will try and just give you bullet points to your concerns of MY opinion so that you can move on and we do not continue to derail the op original thread.
1. The layout comment was in response to the e dash being a “stupid dashboard” I have no issue or problem with the other layout, however I prefer the e class layout over the mustang.

2. The resolution of a 4 yr old e class dash is superior to that of the current gen mustang. I’m not sure why your so hung up on chrome bezels as I never mentioned them but it would be nice to have the cleanest, clearest, highest resolution on both the nav and the digital dash, but we don’t. (Again if your refer to very first post in this thread, you would see that I’m not actually knocking it and fully understand the price difference in the 2 and clearly that drives the difference in tech) Again this dash just doesn’t garner all of the hype in my opinion......again mine. I’m okay if you don’t agree. But after a couple months of daily driving it with the digital dash and I could care less if I had it or not and that is after all what this thread from the OP was all about.

3. Thanks for possibly referring to me as a kid, but at half a century old I think I passed that title by a few miles back. Again I never have claimed to post anything factual, I have stated since my first post in this thread it is all just my opinion.

I think I'm the one hung up on the chrome bezels. They are unnecessary design element that takes away valuable resolution, produce rattles and adds a high amount of glare.

I like the Mercedes and Ford GT digital dashes better but I still like this one.

 

[sbrenskell]

I personally love it! I've had my car for 7 months never get tired of it.

 

[stevegt]

I personally love it! I've had my car for 7 months never get tired of it.

That must not be a recent picture or did you really only put 500 miles on in 7 months?

 

[Coloradoeco]

How are these dashes at night? I really hate the lcd backlight on my navigation in nighttime driving, I wish I could dim the screen and not my gauges vs turning it off completely on the menu. Hoping they switch to oleds soon.

 

[ChaoticFury09]

How are these dashes at night? I really hate the lcd backlight on my navigation in nighttime driving, I wish I could dim the screen and not my gauges vs turning it off completely on the menu. Hoping they switch to oleds soon.

Personally I like the dash at night. You do have the switches to dim it but it won't ever be super dark. I don't find it distracting personally.

 

[Norm Peterson]

I have the digital dash and although I do like it. After the first few months I could care less if I have it or not, the wow factor has worn off, I do change the colors now and then, but short of that not much more.
I will say it is an attention grabber for anyone who is checking out the car and it’s fun to go through all of the stuff, but again that’s for them not me.

I get what you're saying here. At some point, it's mostly just there.

2014 Merc S class dash....now that’s a dash.

Not a fan. Design-wise it looks like M-B couldn't make up their mind whether to go with curved or rectangular shapes, so they went with some of each (vents, steering wheel, dash contours). And that mostly-rectangular bezel with rounded corners and curved sides thrown in for good measure. Yes, the resolution looks great, really nice . . . might be a tad higher-res than necessary for instrumentation, but better than not sharp enough. I would hope that the big panel with the map can be turned completely off, though.


Norm

 

[Norm Peterson]

I personally love it! I've had my car for 7 months never get tired of it.

Design thought here - too many different colors makes it too "busy" for the sake of looking busy.

The picture from post #72 is better (though I might choose the light grey that's around the little gauges for all of the outlines if that's possible).

Norm

 

[jake_zx2]

Norm, you might like mine... to go with the theme of my car, I went blue outline with red insides

 

[99Zeus99]

It was a nice option but too expensive since you had to get the whole 401a package which has items I did not want or need.

If it were stand alone for $795 (like the NAV) it might be worth it.

I say might because I feel the novelty would wear off fairly soon after a few weeks.

I was not willing to shell out the money for the digital dash and put it under the hood instead. I was however pleasantly surprised after playing around with the stock gauge cluster and found I can put the digital speed up right between my analog gauges.That's perfect for me. Now when I go over 80 mph, I don't have to shift my head to see the speed. A few clicks of the arrow and I can see miles to empty, tire pressure etc. right in the middle. Fantastic.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Norm, you might like mine... to go with the theme of my car, I went blue outline with red insides

Definitely better, especially the blue outlines - and this also gives a little more insight as to the extent of the customizations available. Thanks.




(off-topic side notes . . . talk about cosmic coincidences, your tach displays the year I got married, and the mph is the year in 2-digit format that our son was born . . . probably makes me too old to have any idea what #PassportExperience might be. )

Norm

 

[Timeless]

I was not willing to shell out the money for the digital dash and put it under the hood instead. I was however pleasantly surprised after playing around with the stock gauge cluster and found I can put the digital speed up right between my analog gauges.That's perfect for me. Now when I go over 80 mph, I don't have to shift my head to see the speed. A few clicks of the arrow and I can see miles to empty, tire pressure etc. right in the middle. Fantastic.

Yup...I'm used to this already in the RS so it was an easy decision for me.

 

[brucelinc]

Norm, there is a lot of customization. I chose red for both the primary and secondary colors because I have the showstopper red seats. Just seemed to blend well. Also chose red for the ambient lighting for the same reason.

I like the digital dash but I really wanted the 401a package for the interior and tech upgrades.

 

[jake_zx2]

(off-topic side notes . . . talk about cosmic coincidences, your tach displays the year I got married, and the mph is the year in 2-digit format that our son was born . . . probably makes me too old to have any idea what #PassportExperience might be

Well, if it makes you feel any older, your son was born the same year as my dad :LOL:

Honestly, I don’t know what #PassportExperience is either... I think it was just an advertisement on the SiriusXM station I was listening to

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