

| Subject: | Re: flashing temp light |
| From: | Mark Dorm |
| Date: | Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:33:39 PDT |
My LED red light goes on without flashing when it overheats. It did this twice: once when the belt for the water pump and battery shredded itself because the PO's mechanic installed a water pump and put the part for the belt on backward, another time was when the white plastic bleeder for the rear heater poped itself like a cork from a bottle of champaign. (Interesting that tiico has an automatic engine shut off - none of the other options do do they?) The burn of the comes in phased in as if you were turning a light on with a sliding toggle - I think, if I recall correctly, that it has quicker response than the temperature guage >From: John Rodgers <inua@HIWAAY.NET> > >The light you speak of may flash from a malfunction in the circuitry, but I >would suspect otherwise. And although I have heard it serves as an overheat >warning light for the coolant, it seems redundant, when you have a >temperature >gage that tells you what the coolant is doing. So I don't rely on that as a >function. > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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