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Subject:Red dots on speedo (was some other thread about fuel gauges)
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:54:15 -0700

I betcha you're right.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
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On 10/20/2009 2:54 PM David Beierl wrote:

> 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
>