OEM Shift Light?

walter

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I was sitting in the parking lot earlier and it was very dark. I go to turn on the car but I don't turn the lights on just yet and I take a second to admire how cool the gauges are lighting up white just to tell you they're there. That's when I notice that in the tach section right under the middle of the sweep there is a VERY FAINT outline of an upwards pointed arrow.

I remembered that in my sister's old 92 firebird the shift light was indicated like that. Does anyone know if that is a shift light and how can it be activated?

 

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Spdfreak

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This topic has been brought up before, and I think the consensus was that there is a shift light, but it was never hooked up.

 

ct07gt

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The GT500 has it hooked up, it has the small arrow to tell you when to shift for fuel mileage, and the "SVT" shift light on the tach for redline which can also have a beep that you can hear as well.

 

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shooterm1

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I'm surprised that one of these Tuners hasn't figured out how to turn it on for us ....

 

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COBESGT

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I swear I saw this was "Installed" on my car's build sheet, but I have never seen it work on the dash. Perhaps one of the generic order codes? I'll check into it some more and let you guys know what I find.

 

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COBESGT

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I looked at my build sheet and this is how it is, in the MODULE section of the build sheet, SHIFT INDICATOR LIGHT is "ENABLED". But I have never seen a shift light anywhere on the dash. It would be nice to see if this thing would work. Anybody have any other info on this?

 

soontobefastfox

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From what I've heard its not enabled. Its for the GT500 only.

 

walter

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soontobefastfox said:

From what I've heard its not enabled. Its for the GT500 only.

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But the GT500 has a different instrument cluster completely.

I heard that also the GTO has a Shift light that is disabled by the factory and they can get it activated by a programmer hopefully they'll figure this out for the Mustang too