It's a difficult one I know but if you had space for just two additional gauges which two would you go for?

I was thinking that a Turbo gauge and Oil Pressure gauge would be good.

Krysten CTR said:

It's a difficult one I know but if you had space for just two additional gauges which two would you go for?

I was thinking that a Turbo gauge and Oil Pressure gauge would be good.

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I'd be happy with just a Turbo gauge! :yum:

Oil pressure or boost pressure and defently oil temp

Ammeter for sure, low current from a battery causes all sorts of alarms to be thrown up including the dreaded Power steering one!

Probably Oil temperature too... definite turbo saver if the lube system has problems!

Looks like we might need three then after all.

Where would you mount them? Either side of the dash behind the steering wheel or on the centre console above the stereo?

Or on the right windscreen pillar as it already blocks almost everything from being seen

Trouble with the right pillar is the curtain airbags. Would be harsh to have a set of gauges wrapled around your head instead of a soft fluffy pillow!

Krysten CTR said:

It's a difficult one I know but if you had space for just two additional gauges which two would you go for?

I was thinking that a Turbo gauge and Oil Pressure gauge would be good.

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But you don't have a MultiJet! You have a MultiAir.

Krysten CTR said:

Trouble with the right pillar is the curtain airbags. Would be harsh to have a set of gauges wrapled around your head instead of a soft fluffy pillow!

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Ah good point!!

DTPnorfolk said:

But you don't have a MultiJet! You have a MultiAir.

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Yer I know. Got told off at the dealers calling it a T-Jet. So I use MultiAirJet to confuse them.

Ok so I have 135 turbo petrol.

DTP - Does your Abarth have a turbo gauge, other than the digital display!?

Krysten CTR said:

DTP - Does your Abarth have a turbo gauge, other than the digital display!?

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Yeah just the digi display.

Shame it doesn't have an additional dial like the Abarth 500

Krysten CTR said:

Shame it doesn't have an additional dial like the Abarth 500

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This is what disapointted me.

Do the sporting have the digital turbo gauge??

Im thinking of finding a crashed A500 and getting boost gauge out of that or just the holder and fitting a oil temp gauge then fitting boost gauge (that shows bar) somewere else

garyskisplym said:

Do the sporting have the digital turbo gauge??

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Nope, for some reason Fiat left it off the UK models although the euro models have it.

TJ07 said:

Nope, for some reason Fiat left it off the UK models although the euro models have it.

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Wounder if the programming is on the ecu still because if it is you could probally just install the abarth screen to get the gauge think everything else is the same

Would be interesting to see if an Abarth ECU would work on a MultiAir 135

There are more diffrences then just the ecu.

Also without a reflash no it will not work as ecu talks to all other control units which are all individually coded to the car so you would need every computer and locks/ keys

garyskisplym said:

There are more diffrences then just the ecu.

Also without a reflash no it will not work as ecu talks to all other control units which are all individually coded to the car so you would need every computer and locks/ keys

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The instrument cluster has no bearing on the keycode/immobiliser system.

All the Abarth cluster should need is Proxi alignment. The Engine ECU data (eg, boost) should be present on CAN.

Love it when Danny uses big words like Proxi! What dat mean?