Tacho Install

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:31 am

Okay, a while back, i bought a new set of coloured dials off ebay... biggest mistake... the tacho is completely wrong... where 4000rpm used to be it says 6000 and 6000 says redline.... so yeh... i've decided i cbf fixing it so i bought a tacho from autobarn ( i hate em too but i had a $355 gift voucher).. so i bought tacho $295 and paid them to do it.. (the rest of voucher)
Anyway i am yet to book it in.. is there anything i should tell them?? i.e connect to specific wire etc???
i remember i had an el-cheapo tacho and i tried for ages to get it to work... no luck...

m3nG · Post by **m3nG** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:51 am

Its pretty simple to install yourself.... I hope you didnt pay too much to get it installed.. theres one wire for the revs (usually green), a black n red for power and another to the 12v light source..
Although... Im sure autobarns electricians know what they're doing.. All the best with it

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 12:08 pm

yeh, $60 for install... i could do it myself, but if i f**k it up i got myself to blame... they f**k it up i get to yell at someone...

robsta · Post by **robsta** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:06 pm

m3nG wrote:Although... Im sure autobarns electricians know what they're doing.. All the best with it

good joke...

sublime19 · Post by **sublime19** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:35 pm

robsta wrote:
m3nG wrote:Although... Im sure autobarns electricians know what they're doing.. All the best with it
good joke...

well u wanna hear the magic of autobarn.. (by the way he paid $60 to get it installed since thats the rest of voucher)

I had speakers and all I needed them to do was to install them for me. 6x9s I had them in my magna and they sound crazy, people think I have a sub but I don't anyway..

I take it for installation since I got them taken out of my magna before.. they install it and do the sh*ttest job ever.. there's no bass AT ALL like literally.. stock excel speakers sounded better. I knew why it sounded shyt.. cos they didn't have enough around to to hold the speaker tight enough to produce the bass (dodge explanation but u no what i mean)
So I said wtf is this so I took it back, and they made a wooden platform and stuck the speakers in there.. still sounded shyt.. they go to me "oh man those speakers are just sh*t" and i said to em i had them before and they sounded great, now if u cant do it just give me my money back.

they wanted to charge me $50 extra to do it cos "my speakers were crap" .. well if they were crap why are they charging me $50?? cos if they wur crap it wouldnt be able to be "fixed"
anyway so i refuse to pay.. and demand they do it right so finally after 8 hours and 3 days of going there.. they finally did it properly..
they're hopeless..

Hobbsie · Post by **Hobbsie** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:51 pm

why dont you just take it to an autoelectrician and get him to fix your tacho? probably just needs to be realigned which will cost you like $50

when you say colored dials, do you mean the complete dials, or just the round slips that go in? if its complete dials why dont u just put your stocko stuff back in and get some KMC dials or something hehe

bartman · Post by **bartman** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:18 am

R Samson you got burnt by ebay dials as well, mine wouldn't even go over cup that sits around the needles

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:28 am

yeh just the coloured parts (with numbers on em...) anyway i always wanted a tacho... and i like the mirror finish on the crystal series...
Yeh trust me if the f**k it up (pretty hard thing to do) then i'll go back and whinge.. a lot...

m3nG · Post by **m3nG** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 1:43 pm

LOL... sounds like you guys have had bad experinces with them.. I've always done all my auto electrical work myself, so guess i wouldnt know.. Although one would assume with a company that big you'd expect them to have qualified installers there..

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:16 pm

Yeh i havent had em f**k up anything yet... but know many many people who have... actually i've never got them to do any work before... always done it myself.... if i was paying cash i wouldve done it myself for sure but i thought why not... not like its actuall cash

Nacho · Post by **Nacho** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:37 pm

You mean the needles are pointed on the wrong RPM? Why don't you just pull the needles off and align them yourself?