has anyone used or heard anything about those aftermarket oil pressure, water temp and voltage guages that they sell at autozone and oreilly and the like. good bad worth it?

 

I got three and thay have a more accurate reading than the stock gauge
i got oil,water,trans. all electric auto meter. Thay are good to have for high mileage vehicles

 

thanks, by the way where did you mount them?

 

A Pillar

 

I added some gauges under the dash of my '93 F-150, I had an old Auto MEter 3-gauge panel bracket kicking around so I just stuck it to the bottom of the dash with 3M double sided tape. I used oil press, vacuum, and trans temp (I wanted the oil press and trans temp for sure, I just bought a vacuum gauge to fill the other hole. Stock voltage and temp gauges seemed to be OK but I never could get the oil press gauge to work properly.) Two gauges were cheap Sunpro gauges and the trans temp I had to get from VDO, only they made one in the style I wanted. I can say that the backlighting on the VDO gauge is way superior to the Sunpro gauges, if I had it to do over again I'd go with all VDO. Auto Meter and Stewart-Warner are also good brands but I haven't used any of their recent products. The Sunpro gauges work fine they are just hard to read at night because of the way they're backlit. I had to put brighter bulbs in them and even so they are still hard to read because when you look at them at an angle you get a lot of glare from around the edges. Auto Meter makes little silicone light bulb covers so you can change the color of the gauge lighting to match your dash. I know that I have used at least the red (in my old Studebaker) and green (in the F-150) and those work fine.

nate

 

thanks guys, i think ill get some