Unfunctinable instrument cluster

[Dads_bronze_bronco]

Didn’t we just have a whole thread on this yesterday?

Instrument panel sucks / ergonomic disaster area …

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[Aaonter]

Didn’t we just have a whole thread on this yesterday?

Instrument panel sucks / ergonomic disaster area …

Yeah, Speedo usually is always either center or right with tach on the left. I think what bothers me the most is it is not even symmetrical. Why is the speedo lower than the cluster? I am sure in the future the layout could be changed but it looks like a Windows 95 design too. Why all the drop shadows, boxes and gradients. The should have kept it simple and clean.

 

[JohnnyBronco]

I ordered a 2021 bronco and it is now a 2022.
I have been trying to get a good look at the guages in front of the steering wheel and it seems like Ford is purposely making it extremely difficult to see.
When you do get a glance at the gauges I am not going lightly with my reply.
THEY COULDN'T SUCK ANY MORE!
It would be more functional if it broadcast the weather channel.

WHEN you get it, you will see options to change the right side popup to view trips, mpg, hours behind the wheel. You also see the gear and mode you are in, water temp, fuel tank level, and instantaneous velocity (speed in the direction normally headed) and engine revs.

Yes they are a combination of analog digital and bar graph, and yes you can click through to see your tire pressures but there is no readout for engine oil pressure or fluid level or transmission oil temp/pressure - but what is it you want to see? You are suggesting that what you see in digital representation that may not reflect actual production from the Ford website is all you can see (and rightly so)

 

[JohnnyBronco]

Yeah, Speedo usually is always either center or right with tach on the left. I think what bothers me the most is it is not even symmetrical. Why is the speedo lower than the cluster? I am sure in the future the layout could be changed but it looks like a Windows 95 design too. Why all the drop shadows, boxes and gradients. The should have kept it simple and clean.

Traditional race/rally vehicles place speedo in front of navigator and only tach in front of driver. One drives flat out toying with redline, milking power and torque while preserving engine to fly another day while navigator tells driver when and which direction to turn.

 

[Tricky Dick]

Yeah, Speedo usually is always either center or right with tach on the left.

Curiously enough, both my current vehicles, 87 Samurai and 03 F250, both have the speedo on the left, tach on the right.

 

[JohnnyBronco]

Curiously enough, both my current vehicles, 87 Samurai and 03 F250, both have the speedo on the left, tach on the right.

The Samurai was designed with the steering wheel on the right.

The F250, designed by committee - lucky to have a tach at all. Look at the cost savings Ford did with the Pinto gas tank to provide a tach.

 

[Lilj4425]

My first vehicle was a Geo Tracker, white with fuscia pink lettering. It was an absolute booty magnet, girls loved it.

I am buying a Geo Tracker.

 

[Dads_bronze_bronco]

Speedo is on the left and tach on the right on the ‘08 JK too.

I get the Speedo on the left harking back to the early Bronco dash. They just need to fix the tach.

 

[Southern Girl]

What does unfunctinable mean?

The thing is set up differently, but you get used to it. I don't understand what is the big deal?

 

[Compta38]

I am buying a Geo Tracker.

They're so awesome, never see them anymore. I had mine on 2 wheels several times and constantly pegged the speedo at like 90 lol.

 

[Jdc]

Since this thread hasn't completely died, can someone please update the title to dysfunctional? As alternative titles I'll also take: poor ergonomics of the instrument cluster and "I ate too much lead as a kid and now my brain is Unfunctinable".

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