View Poll Results: Autometer Gauges...
Good
128
71.51%
Bad
16
8.94%
Had and replaced
10
5.59%
Bought Other Brand
25
13.97%
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Autometer Gauges...Good...Bad...What's the story???
i had autometers for a few months, got my Greddys now thanks to Mark from Quantum Racing 
by the way car is running great. I saw how people reacted to me having a $30,000 car with those cheap guages and i realized that they sell a certain series of them even at advanced auto, thus i finally realized i installed rice into my car so i dropped them and i realized how inacurate they were when i had my greddy boost, aem ems pulled up, and autometer boost reading at the same time, the greddy was right on and the autometer was off about 2-2.5 lbs of boost.... so ya im never buying autometer again unlesss they decide to make a new system of electronic guages like everyone else is doing and not mechanical anymore. the Japanese manufactures have way more features on their guages which i like, you can set redline warnings for just about everything and you can go back and see your peaks and stuff. just helpful stuff like that that i think is worth the extra cash...
by the way car is running great. I saw how people reacted to me having a $30,000 car with those cheap guages and i realized that they sell a certain series of them even at advanced auto, thus i finally realized i installed rice into my car so i dropped them and i realized how inacurate they were when i had my greddy boost, aem ems pulled up, and autometer boost reading at the same time, the greddy was right on and the autometer was off about 2-2.5 lbs of boost.... so ya im never buying autometer again unlesss they decide to make a new system of electronic guages like everyone else is doing and not mechanical anymore. the Japanese manufactures have way more features on their guages which i like, you can set redline warnings for just about everything and you can go back and see your peaks and stuff. just helpful stuff like that that i think is worth the extra cash...
Ah, the thread that will never die. From my experience the mechanical Carbon Fibre series works very well. However two things bother me.
1) You can get one that isn't calibrated _exactly_ right. It's an analog gauge though. It's very hard to get exact measurements.
2) The kit that comes with the pressure (boost, oil pres) gauges are little a finicky. I thought the gauge was faulty for weeks before I found a tiny leak.
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1) You can get one that isn't calibrated _exactly_ right. It's an analog gauge though. It's very hard to get exact measurements.
2) The kit that comes with the pressure (boost, oil pres) gauges are little a finicky. I thought the gauge was faulty for weeks before I found a tiny leak.
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I have the Ultra lite 30 psi/vaccum gauge and it reads 2psi's higher. At full boost my gauge reads 21-21.5 psi's which i think is false unless an rmr intake and hks cat back can for some reason increase boost on an otherwise stock evo. I am also not satisfied with the lighting, during the night it is almost impossible to read the numbers. Looking forward to replacing for a defi when the $$$ is available.
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i have an autometer cf boost gauge, it seems to be just fine... i also have the a/f gauge and while i thought it was glitchy as much as it was moving back and forth i have yet to see an a/f gauge around here that doesnt do the same thing so who knows... i like them so far
