It's part of the performance pack to indicate when to change gear. It light's up just before you reach the redline in sport and track mode.

 

 

I was aware of the existence of this is light but it perhaps shows what a Mrs Miggins I am that on a jaunt down to Torquay last week when it went off my first split second thought seeing it in the corner of my eyeline was "****, what's gone wrong" 🤣

I'm not really that soft on the car so i'm sure its gone off before I've just never noticed it. And therein lies the pointlessness of such a gimmick.

If you're rapidly accelerating up to speed on a public road, you should be looking where you're going not at the dashboard.

But if you are paying such insufficient attention to the road in front of you (and require a visual prompt to tell you what your ears and experience should be telling you) then there's this big dial with a red section at the end if it to give you that information.

The light calls to mind Baldrick and Blackadder when they go 'over the top' to spy on the German lines...

"Their firing at us Sir"...

..."Thank you Baldrick, be sure to tell me if I get shot" 🙄

 

It's part of the performance pack to indicate when to change gear. It light's up just before you reach the redline in sport and track mode.

Many thanks guys does seem pointless considering there is a shift indicator on the screen bit of the dash

 

The ST lighting up IS the shift indicator, no?

 

The light calls to mind Baldrick and Blackadder when they go 'over the top' to spy on the German lines...

"Their firing at us Sir"...

..."Thank you Baldrick, be sure to tell me if I get shot" 🙄

I need to watch some Slackbladder 🤣🤣

 

The high water mark of British comedy writing. Stuff Shakespeare, it should be taught in schools 😎

"Oh, so you do know her?"...

..."No, just a wild stab in the back... which incidentally is what you'll be getting if you don't start being a bit more helpful" 😆

 

The ST lighting up IS the shift indicator, no?

On the center screen wher the digital speedometer is in the bottom left you get an indicator to change up or down

 

🤦🏻‍♂️ That's the eco shift indicator to suggest you may get better economy by shifting up.

 

As said, concentrate on the road /traffic if driving enthusiastically Not on any 'pretty' lights.
At Least if
anywhere near me please.....

 

I thought the whole idea of a shift indicator was so that you DO keep your eyes on the road - I big light that is visible in your peripheral vision so that you get notification to change before you hit the limiter. No need to look down at the rev counter.
Not required on the road because you shouldn't be driving like that, but of use on track. Genuine track cars used to have a really big light so you couldn't miss it.

 

Genuine track/race cars also have drivers with a helmet, headset for comms and straight cut gears hiding and drowing out the revs of the engine...

It's just a gimmick for a road car, especially on the ST as it's a tiny little light buried in the instrument cluster.

 

I've got a 2015 ST3, I've never driven one of these with the performance pack but I'm sure I read, after many had said how pointless it was, that when the indicator lit you could upshift without releasing the throttle thus giving you less time without drive. Obviously I may be wrong/misread/dreaming but it did make sense at the time, rat-o-van still makes I laugh.

 

That’s because the 2015 mk7.5 ST doesn’t have a performance shift light nor a performance pack. Those are on the mk8/8.5.

 

Remember the rules you all agreed to when joining this forum... leave it at that with regards to the personal insults gents.

 

I have it on mine and I've noticed it light up a few times, but as @Keithsson mentioned, I tend to be looking where I'm going, listening to the engine and judging how the car feels for shifting gear/feathering throttle/etc.

The light itself is too small and too low down to be noticed. More of a distraction if anything, as it looks like a warning light more than anything when it actually catches your eye! 😆

 

My comment was about the subject of this thread.
I introduced myself, AMc if you move the inverted commas you used from 'one of these' to 'one of these with the pack' (as intended to be taken as read in context), you can see my frustration, the thread is about the lights.

 

I don't think this is a BMC Mini

or maybe it is?

 

I'm sorry to be ignorant, but I've never seen that light? My shift light is a line above the digital cluster, that goes from green to orange then red when to change? and it's the length of the whole cluster right infront of your face so you can't miss it, sorry if I've stated something that everyone knows. Mk 8.5.

 

Is that when you're in track mode? If so then that'll be it, I've noticed it in track mode before, but as most people when I'm driving normally I don't see the ST shift light, only the gear up/down arrow to be most economical. I tend not to be looking at the dash for long lengths of time.

 

It's to know when to change up for maximum fuel ineffiency!