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 VWFOOL
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| posted on September 12th, 2002 at 12:23 AM |
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SMITHS gauges. any comments, info?
hi, does anyone know anything about SMITHS gauges,
i have amp, oil pressure and temperature gauges from 1961.
how do these compare to VDO or EMPI gauges?
thanks
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| posted on September 12th, 2002 at 08:10 AM |
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Guages
My uderstanding is that Smiths were a very good guage, british from memory. I think they stopped making them a few years back and changed their name
to Pricol and produced a cheaper unit. Could be wrong but I have found the pricol sender to work fine. |
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| posted on September 13th, 2002 at 07:11 PM |
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yeah i used to have a smiths tacho that was fairly old and never had any problems. probably better than todays rubbish
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| posted on September 13th, 2002 at 08:33 PM |
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I bought a smiths tacho from a swap meet and it worlks fine and looks right too |
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VWFOOL
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| posted on September 13th, 2002 at 09:09 PM |
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shifty vw
are you interested in selling the tacho shiftyvw?
what size is it? does it have a year stamped in the back?
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Smiths Gauges were fitted to Austin, Morris, Riley, Wolseley, MG, Leyland, Rover including Land Rover & MOST U.K. Made Vehicles.
but they were NEVER fitted to Volkswagen or Porsche Vehicles... and I hope never will.... A British Part in a German Car... NEVER...
I wonder if they are used in the NEW Mini [BMW]:o they were used in Morris Mini Minors, Riley Elf & Wolseley Minis, Leyland Minis & the
Australian Made Mini MOKE..:o
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on September 16th, 2002 at 08:41 PM |
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Hey Sam,
Bronze here. no nothing about your topic but wanted to say G'day anyhow. Haven't seen / heard from your for a while. Get in touch sometime
or call around one afternoon. Have a few ideas I'd like to run by you.
The Bronze.
[size=4]Bronze.[/size]
Rathmines, Lake Macquarie, NSW.
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68AutoBug
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| posted on September 17th, 2002 at 05:42 PM |
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Sam,
They are very Well made Gauges and should look great in any British made Vehicle.... and maybe in a VW too..
- [size=4]Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY--- [/size]
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| posted on September 17th, 2002 at 09:42 PM |
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selling
sorry not interested in selling but I dont think they should be hard to find. |
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| posted on September 19th, 2002 at 02:50 PM |
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smiths
thanks guys for the feedback.
i havent been able to acces this thread for ages coz my browser freezes up everytime i try to open it, did this happen for anyone else??
68auto, why the change of heart, u said u didnt wish to see them in a vw before?
shifty if u ever want to get rid of it let me know, i'd like to have a full set.
Bronze, great to hear from you, u got my number still, giv me a call if u want anything? going to boris'picinic?
thaks guys
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| posted on September 19th, 2002 at 05:35 PM |
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Did you know that the original Smiths Instruments UK Pty Ltd was taken over by Lucas in 1983, and in turn by VDO in 1990? VDO decided to close the old
Smiths factory in South Wales in 1993, but a new consortium was then set up to make a new series of 'Smiths' instruments. A more detailed
history can be found at http://www.gower-oaks.co.uk/
The current webpage for the new Smiths Instruments company is http://www.caigauge.com/
The quality of the little 52mm VDO gauges is nothing to write home about either. Until the early '90s, they were made in Australia (in the
Melbourne factory built right across the road from the old VW plant - can you guess why?). The plastic cases eventually perished and fell apart. Today
the 52mm VDO gauges are made in Malaysia.
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| posted on September 19th, 2002 at 10:55 PM |
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phil, where do you get all your information? you know about everything!
thanks mate
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| posted on September 20th, 2002 at 05:57 PM |
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Well I'm the Club Veedub trivia pro...guess it's my job ! :-)
Internet search engines play a big part though. I just did a search for 'Smiths Gauges' and those sites came up.
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