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Has anyone "tuned" their gauge cluster?

Ldstang50

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Has anyone been able to change how their gauges display? The new Mustang has the ability to change the way the gauges display; I want to say some of the options are the old Fox Body display and maybe the display of the 60s car

I personally can't stand the gauges. The temp gauges (water and oil) are just a line, not displaying any actually numbers. The turbos are oil cooled, so knowing the temp the oil is pretty important. Oil pressure is another parameter I feel should be known to the driver

Thoughts?
 

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As far as I know the cluster cannot be changed. I know a lot of people have talked about it.
 

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i have an open case with ford on the IPC
in fact
friday it had an appointment to do an update on ipc
service guy and i rescheduled update until next thursday as the file from ford said allow 7 to 9 hrs to update??? we couldnt figure out what changes
i also spoke to a person at ford engineering for the st about our crappy gauge cluster especially in sport and tow haul
at least tow haul w get a trans temp...
but we should have option for boost and both the eng and trans with numbers like we do in the f150 cluster
its IN THERE already..just needs an update of programming from ford to TURN IT on, so to speak
i have a thread on it here,, feel free to write ford and COMPLAIN . thats the only way it gets fixed
one person cant get it done, it takes a flood of calls and letters

https://www.explorerst.org/threads/sent-this-to-ford-yesterday-about-ipc-cluster.8142/
 

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Has anyone been able to change how their gauges display? The new Mustang has the ability to change the way the gauges display; I want to say some of the options are the old Fox Body display and maybe the display of the 60s car

I personally can't stand the gauges. The temp gauges (water and oil) are just a line, not displaying any actually numbers. The turbos are oil cooled, so knowing the temp the oil is pretty important. Oil pressure is another parameter I feel should be known to the driver

Thoughts?
It has been talked about a lot. No way to do it unfortunately. Best way to monitor is get on old SCT or get an old phone and scanner.
 

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It has been talked about a lot. No way to do it unfortunately. Best way to monitor is get on old SCT or get an old phone and scanner.
which is total bullll for car touted as a sport version :eek::eek:
i have a odb mx plus to send data to an old android phone...it works but ugly as two 90 year olds making porn :ROFLMAO:
 

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i have an open case with ford on the IPC
in fact
friday it had an appointment to do an update on ipc
service guy and i rescheduled update until next thursday as the file from ford said allow 7 to 9 hrs to update??? we couldnt figure out what changes
i also spoke to a person at ford engineering for the st about our crappy gauge cluster especially in sport and tow haul
at least tow haul w get a trans temp...
but we should have option for boost and both the eng and trans with numbers like we do in the f150 cluster
its IN THERE already..just needs an update of programming from ford to TURN IT on, so to speak
i have a thread on it here,, feel free to write ford and COMPLAIN . thats the only way it gets fixed
one person cant get it done, it takes a flood of calls and letters

https://www.explorerst.org/threads/sent-this-to-ford-yesterday-about-ipc-cluster.8142/
good deal man. Thanks for doing this. I’ll write Ford


As far as I know the cluster cannot be changed. I know a lot of people have talked about it.
It has been talked about a lot. No way to do it unfortunately. Best way to monitor is get on old SCT or get an old phone and scanner.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t search for a similar thread thinking others don't see it as a big enough issue, obviously I was wrong. I’m happy to see numerous others have the same complaint
 

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You can also get an OBD2 gauge if you have the cash. Here are a couple:
aFe Advanced Gauge Display Monitor
P3 V3
Those things are garbage! One is so tiny and can only display a single parameter at a time and the other is a big old display that creates blind spots. Ford should have given the ST the same options as the F150 from the start.
 



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