Motoring Discussion > Modern dash displays Buying / Selling
Thread Author: legacylad Replies: 6
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 Sun 10 May 26 08:37 
 Modern dash displays - legacylad
Increasingly manufacturers are fitting huge screens rather than the old style dashboards.

Anyone else wary of buying a vehicle so equipped, especially a 3 yo car, probably still has some warranty but it’s just the inconvenience if it goes wrong, and GR Yaris aside, I haven’t had any of my cars serviced at a main dealer this century.

Just maybe I should crawl back to my cave and scrawl on the walls a bit more :-)
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 Sun 10 May 26 08:56 
 Modern dash displays - smokie
Yep I expect this is something of a generational thing, younger generations were brought up on touch screens and are generally much happier when looking at them than a variety of knobs (though with a mistyped search you can do that on a screen too if you so wish, so I understand :-) )

Must admit I even get SWMBO to change the heating controls if necessary when we're in motion. She seems to need talking through it each time!!
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 Sun 10 May 26 09:02 
 Modern dash displays - sooty123
I think you'll struggle to avoid them in a few years. I think they'll be universal soon.
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 Sun 10 May 26 16:24 
 Modern dash displays - carmalade
Later model A class Mercedes are now suffering dash display failure, but it’s usually a faulty drive module that sits under the front seat . I’ve seen a few Vag models with total dash failure. Not a cheap fix .,
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 Sun 10 May 26 17:13 
 Modern dash displays - legacylad
minor thread drift but the revised BMW series 2 Active Tourer has a huge digital dash.
Quite highly rated, if you ignore its external looks, but aces years down the lines ne it wouldn’t be cheap fix.
the 223i goes and handles well for an MPV, or so i’m told.
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 Sun 10 May 26 19:12 
 Modern dash displays - Lygonos

>> minor thread drift...

Continuing in that vein, we leased a 225xe Active Tourer for 2 years.

Generic 136bhp 1.5 3-cyl turbo petrol driving the front wheels through a 6-spd TC auto, and a 90bhp electric motor driving the rears.

Handled very nicely, and very nippy (0-60 ~6.4s iirc).

Only issue we had was the brakes tended to glaze due to lack of use (regen braking) so a firm stomp or 3 required every fortnight to keep them shiny and biting.
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 Mon 11 May 26 08:18 
 Modern dash displays - smokie
The trick I was told and used to use on the Ampera every so often was to knock it into neutral on something long and ideally downward sloping, like some motorway exit ramps, and brake all the way down. In neutral there was absolutely no regen braking going on.

I'd forgotten that trick. Not sure it would work in the MG.

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