Gear Display - 6 Speed Manual?

[That One Guy]

Nope. At least I haven't found it. Isn't that really what the tach is for? If I'm looking at the instruments, at all, while shifting, it is the tach, and maybe the speedo. Funny, though, with an auto in manual mode, it really is a must-have. They don't have the feel. With a true manual transmission, your ass cheeks tell you what gear you are in, with a little input from your ears and from the shift lever position.

Sure there's the tach, and it's unnecessary, but a little bit of redundancy is nice.

Probably once a month I forget what gear I'm in. And if I'm honest, I just like having numbers and shit in the gauge cluster.

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[will1111]

Lol from my memory YJs and TJs both had upshift lights. Extremely... optimistic upshift lights

This will be my 1st jeep so I wouldn't had known that. I would of taken out the bulb right away lol

 

[JLBuyer]

My hand almost never leaves the shifter, so it also helps always knowing where it’s at

Must be nice to be you,
I personally have been known to have a pen and note pad while taking an order with my right hand and holding the phone with my left hand and steering with my left elbow while shifting with my right elbow on occasion..

 

[FrenchSSGTMike]

Must be nice to be you,
I personally have been known to have a pen and note pad while taking an order with my right hand and holding the phone with my left hand and steering with my left elbow while shifting with my right elbow on occasion..

Not sure how to take it... nor what you exactly mean here...

 

[JLBuyer]

Not sure how to take it... nor what you exactly mean here...

Don't overthink my post, I wasn't trying to insult you.
Could be I just have longer legs and with the seat further back I don't find resting my hand on the shifter comfortable, who knows...

 

[OldGuyNewJeep]

My hand almost never leaves the shifter, so it also helps always knowing where it’s at

Guy who taught me to drive stick (30yrs ago) would not like you! Granted, there weren’t many cable shifters back then... I can hear him, now, “Get your goddamn hand off the stick! It’s not a goddamn arm rest. Every bump you hit with your hand on that shifter is incremental wear and tear. Don’t be a dummy.”

 

[dew]

I can't seem to find this anywhere, but I know you can display the current gear on the 8 speed automatics, but does anyone know if it can be done on a manual? I've always liked being able to quickly see what gear i'm in on the display. It's easy enough to look down at the shifter, but I've had it in my last few cars and have come to like that little feature. Anyone know if this can be done? It doesn't show up in the screen settings like the automatic transmissions do. Thanks.

Gear indicator is a nice to have. Surprised that the Wrangler doesn't have it. Who hasn't at least once missed a gear and/or forgotten which gear they are in. I call BS if someone claims 100% accuracy. I'll claim 99%, but the 1% times it is nice to have the indicator. The WRX has a long throw to 5th gear so sometimes it is easy to miss. Curious how the JL manual compares to your WRX. Not sure if it'll work, but when my Cherokee needs replacement, I would like to at least look at a JL pickup.

 

[JLBuyer]

Wish it were that easy on a motorcycle.
I have a motorcycle that tells me what gear I'm in and it's a beautiful thing.
Completely eliminates the urge to try for that 7th Gear.

 

[JLBuyer]

All this talk about a shift indicator for a 6-speed, I'm just waiting for a semi driver to chime in on what it's like not having a shift indicator for an 18 speed.

 

[drogers]

Gear indicator is a nice to have. Surprised that the Wrangler doesn't have it. Who hasn't at least once missed a gear and/or forgotten which gear they are in. I call BS if someone claims 100% accuracy. I'll claim 99%, but the 1% times it is nice to have the indicator. The WRX has a long throw to 5th gear so sometimes it is easy to miss. Curious how the JL manual compares to your WRX. Not sure if it'll work, but when my Cherokee needs replacement, I would like to at least look at a JL pickup.

Guess I don’t really get it - I don’t ever actually need to know which gear I’m in, I just know if I need to grab a higher or lower gear. Current gear is irrelevant unless it’s 1st or 6th and there isn’t a lower or higher gear respectively, and at those extremes I can feel it.

I can honestly say that in hundreds of thousands of miles over many years, I’ve never once mis-shifted in a way that a gear indicator would have helped with...

 

[The Great Grape Ape]

And we all make gear flubs at times. Any real manual driver has gotten it wrong and looked silly at some point. Ever reached for nothing since you were wrong about which gear you were in?

Reached for 4/5/6th and it wasn’t there, nope ; shifting into the wrong gate, sure, but that’s more a design issue than a perception issue of which gear we’re in.

I understand the aesthetics, but not the ‘need’ for one when the ratios are not so close like on larger order transmissions than the Wrangler.

Of course there are after market solutions, and the ECU has the gear position info, so it might be pulled by the OBDII sensors and displayed using 3rd party apps, or products (see below).

It might even be an option in the OBD pages in the JL, but with all the issue with the off-road pages sofar I’d be surprised if those features are available before that gets fixed.

 

[MikeM1968]

Riding a motorcycle you kinda know- you can feel the engine topping out on whatever gear you’re in - can’t be vastly different on a car- it’s been years since I drove a manual car though and only ever owned one.

Even with my bike, I just looked up the gear to speed range on google

My first ( older) bike had a display that showed it though.

 

[snelldogg]

The second you touch the gear shift you immediately know the gear from he position. I agree 99.9%. If the OP wants it to each his own. As for motorcycles, the only worthwhile indicator is neutral...just saying.

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