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How will you set up your gauge cluster when driving?

  • Linked to Drive Mode (cluster changes based on drive mode)

    Votes: 10 27%
  • Classic A - White gauges (seen in Normal and Smart drive modes)

    Votes: 0 0%
  • Classic B - Carbon fiber gauges (seen in Sport mode)

    Votes: 7 19%
  • Classic C - Black gauges (not used in any drive modes)

    Votes: 15 41%
  • Cube - Numbers in Cubes (not used in any drive modes)

    Votes: 5 14%

Gauge Cluster Theme

12K views 26 replies 11 participants last post by  Kaput  
On the right side of the steering wheel, it's the top left button (nearest the horn). Push that until you get to the fuel economy display (if memory serves me ... I've been running Cube almost since I got it to keep digital speed up while I use the center for other things) then use the up/down button on the inside of the right side of the wheel (below that page button you used to get there) to scroll through the screens until you get to speed. I think it's those four on that section ... current drive, since last fill, all-time, speed.
 
I learned to drive manual in a 63 Ford Falcon, 3 on the tree. Speedo didn't work above 30, so I installed a tach and calculated the speed at RPM in 3rd gear. I was dead accurate too, based on the police officer's radar gun. LOL I did use the tach in the Equinox last winter to figure out Chevy disables 6th gear in a 6 speed transmission when it's cold out. By cold, they mean below literal freezing. 32F/0C. Sometimes. Not always. Spent most of the winter with a 5 speed Equinox. But the tach told me something was off. Wouldn't want to be without one in a car.
 
I like how you can have the digital speedometer on the left and have something else in the center.
That is definitely an advantage of the rather odd little cube design. I have come to really enjoy having the digital speedo in front of me all the time, even with a dial right beside it. I've had too many vehicles with inaccurate analog gauges. (My truck and the Dodge being two, currently. Dodge has digital speed in the middle, in the truck, I pull live data from my BlueDriver to get my speed/rpm/etc from the OBDII port.) The tach side of the cube layout just looks/feels odd to me though. Although for as much as the tach is really important while driving an automatic ... I suppose it wouldn't matter too much.

I'll play around with all of them, except the white faces I'm certain, and see what sticks.
 
Logically all they need is to allow a user setting per drive-mode. That should be dead simple, since it's all software options. That's a bit disappointing.
 
I like the classic B a lot, but admit I don't hate classic C at all. What I would have LOVED is if Hyundai would have given us a way to create our own dial art. They are, after all, just some basic images on a screen. Animations may be trickier for custom, but still ... how fun would that be?