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Wow look at all the fancy display experts we got goin on here. FL, fixed LCD, fancy fancy terms. Sure sounds like they know what they're talkin about don't it.
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United States of America, loud'n'proud! |
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Actually, it's sort of a dot-matrix-like setup too, which means it's a far cry from being anything like outdated. The outdated stuff tends to be fixed LCD type displays, much like you can find in most current calculators, with fixed letter / number shapes. Toyotas I've been in lately use this a LOT (had a rental 07 4Runner with leather and the cheapo-looking displays in the center stack.. kind of off-putting for something that should be much classier for the money).
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It's called an FL Display, and they're available in any of a dozen or more colors. Newer is not always better, in this case the old style font and bright orange contrast against the solid black background make for an easily legible and uncluttered display with all pertinent info right in one place.
Each of the GM brands of course have a variation on this same radio display now in their own color(which is 10000 light years ahead of Ford's POS radio by the way) and generally I think it works well. I may be slightly biased because I've always loved the orange glow of my BMWs as well.
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estreka
- Mar 12, 2008 1:09 pm
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subarctic north - Great Falls, MT |
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I believe it was our old '86 Dodge Caravan that required one to take out the ol' tech orders to change the clock.
If I remember right, you had to hold down the clock button until it started blinking (which I think took forever), then find out which of the preset buttons controlled the hours and minutes. While holding down the clock button, you had to furiously tap away (no holding) at the time until you got where you were going. You had to be quick too, because the clock would lock you out if you took too long and you'd have to start the whole process over again. Oh, and the time would reset to where it had been previously if not set.
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A friend of mine had an old eighties vw rabbit with an old after-market Alpine radio. The clock was wrong, so every guy she had in the car would try to set it and couldn't. I once spent over an hour pressing and holding every button and knob to try to change it and still couldn't. The car is long gone and no one ever figured out how to set that clock. Now that was an illogical clock.
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My '02 Corvette with the factory el-cheapo Delco radio has dedicated hour and minute buttons on the face. Simply press for 2 seconds, and the clock is changed. I hate the radio otherwise, but I love how easy it is to change the clock. All radios should be this way.
The aftermarket Pioneer radio I have in my truck is impossible to change the clock without reading the owners manual. There is no way you could ever figure it out without the manual.
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jriz
- Mar 12, 2008 11:45 am
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I had to read the stupid manual in a Mazda 3 to change the clock. It was in no way logical.
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dalaw
- Mar 11, 2008 8:08 pm
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I agree with firstwagon that the display does look old. Last time I saw that kind of display was on a 1980's computer running on DOS.
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all i did was turn the knob on my VW Golf once, and voila....cant be easier than that.
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I almost forgot how to change the time on my Caprice... Just hold the set button and boom time change!
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Well my 4runner took one second!sooo you are saying?
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My Saab has analogue clock with two buttons under it. One goes forward. One goes backwards. Easy as pie.
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It great that it's easy (a rare feature on too many cars) but why does that display look like something from the 80's?
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louiswei
- Mar 11, 2008 4:12 pm
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Ditto, lvranger, same in my Lexus.
Yup, simplicity is good...
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lvranger
- Mar 11, 2008 4:06 pm
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I like easy too. My Tundra has a separate clock so I hit the hour button once and was done.
I don't mean to be a one upper. :)
It does sound like they had some common sense in the design of that radio.
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