We have a new MCS with 348 miles on it now, so it hasn't been revved yet past 4,000rpm. I noticed that on the tachometer, there are additional increments beginning at 5,500rpm, the first four (from 5,500-6,500) of which are not backlit when the lights are on. Do these light up at all as the tach approaches 6,000rpm?

The "lighted" redline part of the tachometer begins just after 6,500rpm. I've seen pictures that make this appear to be "normal", but is it?

Thanks,

Greg

 

Normal, they won't I know one NAMer (Barnabas) did make a shiftlight to do that though, They can be adjusted by ECU progammming to adjust redline and they will vary with MC MCS MCa MCSa One and D

 

Unfortunately, the lights that approach redline do not light up as the tach passes them (unless MINI changed this since '02). The redline is 6750.

 

Your tach is fine. The same tach is used in the MINI One, the MINI One Diesel, the MINI Cooper, and the MINI Cooper S. Depending on which car you have, the redline is different. They share the same physical tachometer, but the ECU indicates the redline in the appropriate place. The One Diesel has the lowest redline, and the Cooper S the highest.

Make sense now?

Rawhyde

 

mine has a couple of non-lit bars. this is "normal" in a way of cost reduction
by communizing parts.

 

This is funny I had always wondered if my 03 tach was busted or if they would indeed light up. My 05 lights up completly ....I think

 

Which model do you drive?

 

mine lights up as i get to around 4700 rpm, lights from the permanent red line light up to the five grand mark in a lighter orange

 

Thank you all for the quick replies.

Greg

 

All you guys need to be watching the road more instead of fixating on your tach!

 

the reason they invented the open stretch of straight road

 

I heard there was talk of Mini using the "moving redline" like BMW does. On my M3 the tach lights stay lit until the car is warmed up. They go all the way down to 4k (yellow) and they will turn off as the water temp reaches normal operating tempurature just leaving 1 yellow near 7,500 and red after 8k.

Nice feature, but when the water is warm the car is not warmed up - it's the oil temp they should have linked to.