Not in the standard additional gauge pack they don't. Voltmeter and Oil temperature. Lots of people fit Oil pressure as it's useful.
Voltmeter is easy, feed from the instrument live and earth to the chassis earth point behind the dash.
Ammeter's are much more complicated. Firstly I don't think you'll find one with enough capacity as I think that your car (1995 right?) will have a 70 amp alternator and you can only get 60 amp ammeters. If you overcharge an ammeter it will break. But besides that they are tricky to wire up. You need to feed everything in the car through the ammeter, except the starter motor. This means you need two VERY LARGE cables capable of carrying a good 90 amps peak current to provide a sefety margin, running from the starter solenoid into the cabin and back again. This will mean a minimum of 12 square mm cables. So now you have everything in your car running through the dashboard. If this gauge ever breaks you will loose power to everything, including the ignition.
These problems can be easily overcome and you can fit one if you want (I intend to in my next re-fit of our car) but it's not to be tackled lightly.
There's a lot more useful gauges you can get which are a lot easier to fit anyway.
You might have trouble finding a dashboard in a scrapyard matey, standard Mini's only had dashboards since the late 90's and only a handful of special editions had it before that. The plastic thing you've ripped out (or a slightly different plastic thing in the centre) is the classic Mini dash setup! The whole point of it is to have the nice big front parcel shelf. There's plenty of templates on the net though, or companies who will sell you a pre-cut blank to work from, good luck.
Edited by Dan, 06 February 2005 - 01:20 PM.
