Saturday, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:49
You are spot on, it’s so people don’t worry too much, my brother’s car has the factory temp gage but it is a very sensitive one, and it annoys the hell out of me when I drive the car.
It has a digital temp readout on the trip computer also, along with Oil pressure, RPM, Voltage, and Fuel capacity and fuel pressure too I think, and speed, Even know it has analogue gages for fuel, temp, oil, volts, RPM and speed. Anyway we have determined by looking at the digital readout if the water temp changes as little as 5degreesC it will show it on the analogue gage.
I am a bit of a control freak in I like to know what is happening under the bonnet but in regards to most thing’s like water temp all I need to know is that it is running in the normal rage I.E between 80 to 102Degrees C and if it goes above or below that as long as the gage shows it by moving up or down I am happy.
This bit may Interest you Roachie as a gadget man, most manufactures hide little programs in their onboard computers like I have listed above, in regards to digital readout’s on what the engine is doing, I know for one Ford do!.Also On some ford models you also have something called a pursuit mode that was put there for the Cop’s, and that allows you to do all sort’s of cool stuff if you know the access sequence. .
In many cases even the dealerships don’t know about them, people just some how break into the system. It is generally displayed throe the car’s digital odometer/ trip computer’s, I know the GU patrol’s have a digital odometer.
It is accessible manly by tuning the ignition on in a sequence then pressing the Trip reset button on the instrument cluster at specific times I.E Press 2 times and hold down for 10seconds then release and press 3 more times within 4 second’s. This then gives you accesses to all sorts of information about what the engine is doing. Don’t know if the 4.2 would have this being an old stile diesel but could be worth searching around on the Net for on a rainy day, it would not surprise me if the 3-Litre had something like this thou.
Cheers. And how it the Oil filtration system going, how many K’s are you getting between oil changers now?
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