Looked at a 99(V) 20vt and it had an oil pressure/voltage gauge, in my 98(R) 20vt it has a pressure/temp gauge.

Which is standard?
why would you want to see the battery voltage?

curious

Voltage guage replaced oil temp mid way through '98.
No idea why...

Perhaps it took them that long to find that the alternator cooking itself was a common problem

Neil

no, otherwise they would have fitted a manifold crack sensor

I use the oil temp as a rough indication of when its safe to start booting the turbo.

The decision to swap the oil temp gauge for a voltmeter is ludicrously stupid, and something I will never understand from the day I bought the Coupe onwards. Surely one of the most useful gauges on any car, let alone a turboed one, let alone an Italian one, let alone a turboed Italian one ?

Agree with Dan, often the water temp will be normal, but it ususlly takes a couple more mins for the oil to get up to temp

Was it cost cutting? one less sensor to have on the car, as the ECU probably know the voltage anyway?

The later cars with the voltage gauge, are their engine's still wired up with a oil temp sensor anyway as a matter of interest?

We had a old Renault years ago, the odometer on the speedo failed and I got another instrutment panel from a higher model car with a rev counter.
I took off the faulty non- rev counter speedo from our car, and there in the wiring loom was the a rev counter connecter! and it worked, so maybe the later Coupe's are still wired up with an oil temp sensor in the wiring loom.

Have anyone checked that out? Maybe if Carlt has a spare minute to check out the plus he's breaking up he could answer that!!

IIRC there is no hole for the sensor in the block on cars without it so retro fitting would be difficult.

Has any one retro fitted an oil temp guage to their later car ?

In bad old days of iron engines the oil pressure gauge was standard. Apparently once the motorways arrived (40yrs ago) drivers started pushing their cars harder and they a) overheated and blew up or b) showed low oil presssure through higher temps and worn shell bearings. So many complaints to dealers that they replaced the gauge with an idiot light..we all know the coupe gauge gives wild pressure swings from high revs to low and hot or cold..same idea to stop the punters bothering the dealers?

i hate my volt meter

i think they should put a boost gauge not a volt meter!!