Re: Depreciation

 I doubt I'll own my 2010 Accent 4-door long enough to determine
longevity/depreciation.

I bought a new 2010 Accent two months ago, but, being old-school,
didn't think to look
for or ask about a TEMPERATURE GAUGE at time of purchase.

And the salesman didn't tell me about this missing instrument,
either.  Since that day he's been hard to contact.

Intentional?

I'll probably never know.

But the absence of an in-dash analog gauge has made me uncomfortable,
and skeptical.  Like what ELSE DOESN'T this motor vehicle have?

 

Disagree.  When starting off on a frigid day I look at my temp gauge
so I know I can stop shivering.

--Vic

 ?

You'd have loved my Buick Regal.  The gauge would peg hot as soon as you
turned the key.   No shiver needed.

 

But how many are in fact "real" gauges? GM does still include a real
pressure transducer for oil pressure (or at least they did the last time I
looked at GM Truck Manual), BUT the dash oil pressure gauge is not connected
directly to the transducer. The signal for all of the gauges is routed
trough the PCM, so GM can play the same sort of games with the dash reading
as anyone else. Maybe the reading are "real time" or maybe not (hard to tell
from the wiring diagrams). But at least they do gather actual oil pressure
information beyond some and none - although given the reliability of most
cheap transducers I am not sure there is any practical difference.

Ed

 

The way GMC describes the gauges on the 2011 models leaves a lot of wiggle
room. They say:

"Instrumentation: Analog cluster with speedometer, fuel level, engine
temperature and tachometer. On 1500 SLE , SLT and Denali models, includes
voltmeter and oil pressure indicators."

Indicators seems to imply that they might not be real analog gauges....

Ed