[Shotimes] Oh-boy...oh-boy..RE: Making a SHO last a long time....

[Jon Heese]

Well first, Carl Prochilo wrote:
 >On Sat, May 7, 2005 10:25 pm, Marlene Doyle said:
 >>Second::
 >> The most annoying part of ownership, would be the 
electrical/electronical
 >> gremlins, and every SHO will eventually have a visit by them.
 >
 >Please explain this.  Neither of my SHO's has exhibited any electrical
 >problems.

Then something struck me funny about this, so I checked my TechSHO 
archives, and found this:

Carl Prochilo wrote:
 >Not sure if these two issues are related.  Likely they are.
 >
 >1)  temp gauge not reading correctly.  Needle likes to wander high.
 >Last night and this morning I noticed that if I manually turn the
 >headlamp switch on to parking lights (so that the instrument panel
 >lights come on), the temp gauge needle will actually go up to max by
 >itself with the car off.  Also, whether or not I use the lights, the
 >needle will go to full max after I turn the car off and remove the key.
 >
 >2)  last night while driving the entire instrument cluster lighting went
 >out while waiting for a traffic light.  When I accelerated it came back
 >on.  Then went off again.  Hit a couple of bumps and then the lights
 >popped on again.
 >
<snip>

Sounds like electrical gremlins to me, Carl... =)

Regards,
Jon Heese