Chinese vs American made from the same company.

 

Chinese vs American made from the same company.

REALLY?............

Now how about some accurate info...

 

Which one is American made? because I was informed autometer is made over seas now.

 

That really sucks. I haven't bough an Autometer in about five years but they where made here back then. Also, I was talking to their rep at the midway and he is the one that told be the autogauge stuff was made over sea's.

 

don't give a FUCK which one is made where----

actual differences please....

Autogage is made in Mexico fyi

 

Typical idiotic response from a greedy leech!!!!!!!!



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I've had an autogauge tach with shift light in my car forever never had any real problems with it but dont have an autometer to compare it to. The autogauge shift light your referencing is the same as mine but goes to 10k

 

Autometer for the W!!! Cuz the autometer brand will work with 99.9% of the Eboxes. No messing around.

 

that's worth a thought----right now it's got a 6al with a slew of 2/3 step box's. complete msd ignition dist/ and all.

 

Get the one with the 100 watt bulb
http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=459555&highlight=100+watt+shift+light&page=4

 

I have an Autometer monster tach that has given me zero issues but it is also about 5 years old. After many suggestions I will be ordering new autometer gauges also, hope this helps you out bud.

 

Back to the OP's question. I've never bought an autogauge but I've had Auto Meters in everything I've ever built and not a singe failure. Even had a Monster tach and the regular stuff in a mud truck for over 15 years with no doors and the back roof removed parked out side and never a problem. My BIL is a cheap ass and bought the autogauge water, temp and volts gauges. Can't remember which one it was but the face on one came loose and spun on it's side. Don't think he ever said he had an issue with the tach though.

 

My friend had one autogage tach and it had a few issues that may have been corrected. First, the shift light setting knob would move from the car vibrations. So we had to put a rubber band around the knob and push it against the tach face for resistance. Second and the biggest issue for me was the only way to test the set point was to rev the engine until the light came on. The autometer had a way to set the shift light rpm with the engine off.

 

On my autogauge tach everytime you turn the key to the on position before your you start the car my tach verifies the rpm the shift light comes on

 

Ok so they did update it. That was the way the Autometer was at that time. The autogage was the outdated Autometer that couldn't tested.

 

Here is what my autogage tach did 2 weeks ago after about 10 years of service...... somewhere around 400 passes a year.

 

I replaced it with this don't mind the dusty dash.

 

What the hell is the rubber braided line and ball valve for?

 

Never used Autogage tach, but had their water temp fail. The Autometer gauges feels heavier and I decided do I want to rely on cheap gauges on my $15-25k engines? No

 

Just an FYI. Autogage is made in Taiwan and Autometer is made in Illinois. The Autogage is a decent tach, but the Autometer is better.

 

ok... chatted to the tech line today on the differences from the manufactures stand point.

the biggest difference is the paid contingency's for the Auto meter tach's & gauges-- the Auto gauge brand does not have any. The insides are very-very similar in design, other then the new style of Auto meter tach has it's individual led lit markings on the tach face, where the auto gauge is like the old Auto meter tach-- simple back lit style.

Straight from the tech gent' ,
"If it was my money and I was not worried about contingencies, Auto Gauge would be the way I would go for a tach." "it has a proven track record, being it is design like the old Auto Meter tach that has lived forever"

hope this helps anyone looking for Auto Meter/ Auto Gauge tach.

 

Have the 10k Auto Gage 5" tach. Works great going on 10 years of use!

 

I have a 5'' Auto Meter Tach with a shift light for sale if anyone is looking. 150 plus the ride.

 

I have a auto meter luner series in the bug love it blue back lighting and blue shift light. thing works great I picked it up used. but no issues. The autogauge that came with the malibu is 200 rpm off, it reads higher then the sniper EFI hand held by that much and sometimes more. If I had the scratch would be pming about the one above.

 

I had a Lunar tach, I loved it.... I wish they wouldn't have discontinued them.

 

It's your money..but. I've had both and I'll stick with Autometer Sport Comp gauges. The Autogauge tach with a shift light wasn't accurate. It would change shift points and had to be checked before every pass. My Autometer Sport Comp was always on the money for the last 15 years. When it did give problems last year I removed it and sent it in for repair. They said the board was broken and parts weren't available any longer because it was so old. Then they offered to sell me a new tach for a ridiculously low price to replace it!

 

Not a very hard decision IMHO.

Auto Meter = Higher quality, helping an American keep his job for a small up charge

Auto Gage = Descent but problematic, helping cement the idea of offshoring jobs to the decision makers at Auto Meter

 

Auto gage here. As others have mentioned the shift light set point drifts on mine. It was so bad I went with an separate programmable shift light. Tack seems accurate. Would not recommend.