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Subject:Re: Fuel Gauge Behavior Changed
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:54:21 -0400

At 05:26 PM 10/20/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>I'm still trying to suss what the single safety orange dot on the 20 mph
>tick on the speedometer signifies, what the two safety orange dots on the
>40 mph tick signify, and what the three safety orange dots on the 65 mph
>tick mean. They can't be shift points? Besides, this is an auto tranny
>version, so the dots are meaningless.
>
>So if they decided to print such puzzling marks on the speedo, I would not
>put it past them to place arbitrary marks on a fuel gauge face.

Hey, Mr. Rocket (?lettuce?) ;-)

"Not understood by me" not-equals "arbitrary."  I rather suspect
those are approximate redlines for the non-tachometer manual
transmission crowd.

Yrs,
D