Does a Geo Metro make you eligible for the Arcane Car Society of the SF
Bay Area? The British Car show held in Palo Alto CA in the fall of each
year, has a big (or small?) bonus feature. Cars from the Arcane group
are the strangest assortment of micro, mini, and otherwise oddball cars
I've seen in one place- Isettas,Volgas, tiny Fiats, Auto Unions, etc.
etc.
>>> Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net> 6/21/2007 12:21:36 PM >>>
on 6/21/07 11:13 AM, DON SCOTT at rowdon@sonoma-county.org wrote:
> What does one of those thermometers cost? Wish I had one years ago
when
> I was more involved with overheating Britcars! My Miata and Civic
Si
> temp gauge just go to N and stay there regardless of the ambient temp
or
> the grade of the road or movement of the car. Maybe the gauges on
> Japanese cars are inaccurate and are designed to make the driver
think
> everything's ok?
Not so much "inaccurate" as "severely damped" -- they are not analog
real-time gauges, but are under control of the ECU.
For example, my wife's Geo Metro has a temp gauge that scarcely ever
moves
off "cold" (this seems unlikely for an inline 3 with a heritage of
overheating problems and a plastic radiator the size of a sheet of
letterhead). Dealer diagnostics traced it to the computer, which also
tends
to display the "check engine" warning at random. Their response was
"Live
with it -- it's not worth replacing the ECU".
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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