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Old 10-22-2009, 08:38 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by goof2 View Post
Are you sure about that? Any temp gauge I have seen will be on the bottom peg at a cold start up and will slowly rise to normal temp over the course of 5 minutes or so. Do they just program that in to fuck with people or is it actually measuring something, like the coolant temp?
The gauge just sits there at zero for the first couple minutes, then all of a sudden when the thermostat opens, it finally starts moving, and goes up to the "normal" position and stays in the exact same place throughout your trip. You could be sitting in stop and go traffic, or cruising on the highway, but the needle stays frozen in the same spot. At least in most cars I've driven. Not to mention they don't give you any markings on the gauge to indicate what the temperature is.

Same thing with oil pressure gauges. Only on certain sports cars is the gauge actually marked with any PSI measurements, and on most cars you don't even see the needle moving in response to blipping the throttle, as it should.

Anyway, it's just an analogy. A measurement that never changes in response to current events is meaningless and does not generate involvement or interest from the public in any way.

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