Years ago, most cars had stick shift with no tachometer. These days, most cars have automatics with a tach. 
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Years ago, most cars had stick shift with no tachometer. These days, most cars have automatics with a tach.
Kinda funny thoughts on that........
On my manual shift cars, I never really paid much attention to the tach. I could tell by feel and sound when the engine / road speed dictated the next gear.
On my automatic transmission equipped cars, getting to know the usual tach reading while in top gear (ratio) at various highway road speeds was somewhat useful in determining if the transmission was malfunctioning ("slipping").
Either way, I mostly saw the tach as "eye candy", , , , since I have the "mechanic's ears" to tell when something's amiss
Same when I drove big trucks. I knew when the engine was ready for the next gear. When driving the Green Hornet, I didn't stay in any of the first 9 gears for very long. It got to 10th, top gear or "the big hole" in trucker speak very quickly.Kinda funny thoughts on that........
On my manual shift cars, I never really paid much attention to the tach. I could tell by feel and sound when the engine / road speed dictated the next gear.
On my automatic transmission equipped cars, getting to know the usual tach reading while in top gear (ratio) at various highway road speeds was somewhat useful in determining if the transmission was malfunctioning ("slipping").
Either way, I mostly saw the tach as "eye candy", , , , since I have the "mechanic's ears" to tell when something's amiss
On one occasion, I was driving a company pickup truck and it sounded too loud. I looked at the tach and it was too high for overdrive at that speed. After making sure it was in the OD position, it was obvious that it wasn't going to shift into OD. I looked at the transmission fluid and it was burned with metal shavings. New transmission!
Me too.
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