dont buy glowshift a pillars

I want to really give an insight on glowshift here. More of my personal experience but here it goes. About a year and a half - 2 years ago i purchased 3 gauges from glowshift. a mech boost. a pyro. and a elec water temp. Got them all installed and was happy as can be. a couple months later i bought 4 more gauges from them for a total of 7. I talked good about them on the forums here and didnt have an REAL major issues. I will tell you today i would NOT recommend glowshift to anyone. They have a year warranty and let me tell you. I have put that warranty to use. I have been through 2 water temp gauges. 2 fuel pressure gauges and sending units. 2 oil pressure sending units and 1 digital volt gauge. and currently 2 of the 7 gauges in my truck are still working. Boost gauge works great. Pyro wont read anymore and just flops around like a fish. Water temp does the same thing just a dead fish jumping around. fuel pressure reads 10psi some days and others its just pegged. Hooked a snap on fuel pressure tested to it and it reads 16-17psi perfect. (18psi max carter pump). My oil pressure gauge doesnt have any colors other than red. Everything is just taking a dump. And this is what really set me off. I called in 3 days after my year warranty was up on my led digital volt gauge because one of the lines that make the numbers was no longer working. They told me i used the warranty to much in the past and there was nothing they could do for me.

I dont want you to freak out about your gauges or anything but you get what you pay for and when i rebuild my truck here soon it will be getting 10 ISSPRO EV2 gauges on my dash. thank you very much and have a good night.

Seriously people why do you put gauges on your Apiller? is it for the cool racecar look? I for one did it because it is a convieniant high vissabillity area and to monitor things critical to my trucks well being thats why I chose autometer guages. Glow shift

I have had no issues with glowshift been running them for close to a year now

I just installed a four gauge pod on my 94. Fits pretty good. I'm really happy with it. If I were to do it over I might go with autometer, but the glowshift was $40 and autometer $80.

I don't have any of their gauges. I figured I'd stick with a better known maker for good quality gauges, because if I'm spending the money I want to spend a little more and not wonder if I'm getting a good reading.

93_444idi said:

update.. I've had 3 different issues with 3 different gauges. pyro is a digital gauge and occassionally shows readings all over the place. boost gauge jumps, doesn't operate smoothly. tonight the oil temp gauge apparently had a light go out, the off white back-color I was using is gone, just blue and purple now. all that combined with no dimming ability, incorrect size gauges (fit their pods, not an autometer that is actually 2 1/16"), and cheap quality pillar pod, will keep me from ever buying from them again. I'm buying a 2 gauge pod, pyro, and boost from autometer like I should've done to begin with and getting that crap out of my truck.

anyone considering glowshift has been warned. 3 different issues with 3 gauges, what're the odds.

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Glowshift seems to be a hit or miss thing. My gauges and pod have been PERFECT not a single complaint. Just had a bad ground on one such was my fault not there's.

Glowshift offers a 1 year warranty, might want to check with them. I got all three of mine replaced with zero fuss and can't be happier now.

I've bought a digital water temp for my truck and a tach for our mini truck and both work perfect. Both instructions and wiring colors were the same Hit or miss probably but I really like the style of there gauges.

i was very happy with my gauges when i got them. I like the look. I didnt care for them in the day though kinda hard to see if you had a glare but that was what ever. Until i started having a bunch of issues. It got to the point where i was on the phone with glowshift trying to figure out what was going on. One tech support guy was having me doing all these ohm tests and checks with him on the phone and in the end he said "i dont know whats wrong. Doesnt make sense"

Im not trying to bash them just wanted to share my experience.

My brother has a Glowshift boost gauge on his Jetta, been on for at least three years and many miles, with no problems.

I'm one week past the one year warranty... I'll call them tomorrow and see how **** they are about the "1 year". I'd like to just send them back and get my money back.

I would just rather spend a little more and have no headaches. I have always run Autometer gauges with Zero issues, nor have I ever heard of any issues.

GlowSHIT on the other hand I hear issues all the time. How much did you really save when you even have to replace 1 gauge

MAke sure and tell them that they have several forums that they will get outed on if they dont honor the warranty even if its over , failure is failure, or make a better product, gauges should last ,well, at least 20 years.

typ4 said:

or make a better product, gauges should last ,well, at least 20 years.

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That's the truth... I recently yanked a bunch of old Stewart Warner temp and an Isspro pyro factory gauges out of an early 70's Kenworth and just popped the first temp gauge in so I could read teh water temp on the rad side of teh thermostat and that gauge still works perfectly pushing 40 years old, even after the truck sat in the boneyard for quite a few years ,and lord knows how many million miles were on the truck before it was retired.