tsbrewers

Mine doesn't have any back windows and it doesn't bother me.

Bluewhale, is the airbag/cover from the van or from the silverado? Of course you can get a wheel much cheaper without these, so if the vans would fit on to the silverado's wheel, that would save some money.

Thanks ,

Brew

dberladyn

This is my fourth van, I haven't had one in over 15 years. All my other vans had rear windows, two had glass on the slider. Now, looking back, I wouldn't ever prefer glass over blank steel, unless of course it was a passenger / touring van.

Bluewhale

I had the same idea about the tach. Coming soon. Yes the tabs for the mirror switch broke an fell inside

Its the original van airbag.

dberladyn

There's a Tach on the DIC? At least on mine there is.

canucklehead

I did not know that. However, there should be a gauge style tach on the cluster. Almost every other gm vehicle does, except the vans.....joke.

dberladyn

Yeah, I didn't even realize it was missing a tach until a few days after I bought it. I was disappointed at first but then, it's a van, it's mainly an automatic, a tach really isn't needed. But then again, mine has manual control of the 6sp automatic, so a tach would be nice but it's displayed on the DIC for you.

With my 5 speed Colorado, I actually rarely look at the tach. Occasionally when I rev it up for bit of fun off the line, but normally the only time I look at the tack is if I am wanting to know the motor is running and occasionally how smoothly. Other than that... the information on a DIC works just fine. Hill climbing with a trailer... switching the DIC to Tach is just fine with me.

canucklehead

When I am pulling up the mountain pass, and I downshift to second and am stuck in second for a long, time, I want to know that I am not going over 3500 rpm or so. You can't do that by ear. Most folks can do without a tach, but for me, I like to know what things are doing on the truck. GM is being cheap as usual. Vans have been without a tach for decades....At least the DIC is something though.

dberladyn

I tried manual shifting with the push button just for the fun of it. It scared me, I can't do anything by ear or feel in the van either. Actually your right, looking back at that moment I'd prefer a needle too, trying to comprehend the digital readout wasn't really working for me.

Bluewhale

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dberladyn

Sorry, I guess that wasn't very clear. I have a 6 speed automatic transmission, which allows you electronic manual control via two buttons on the shifter. If you have an older 4 speed you might not be aware of that. Anyway I was admitting it would be nice to have an analogue tachometer instead of the digital readout.

For highway driving in regards to manual shifting, the digital tach is fine, but if I was actually to attempt manual shifting in traffic (with all these hills in my area) using only the digital tach, I'd probably blow the motor. But then I'll never be doing that. I can live with my digital tach, it's all I need, but an analogue tach would be nice.