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

[Carl Prochilo]

Alternator failure is just that.  It may have seemed like gremlins at the
time but it was nothing extraordinary.  This happened once in 13 years so
it is hardly a systematic issue like the brakes.

I'll have to replace the temp sender to see if that cures the other problem.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sat, May 7, 2005 11:07 pm, Jon Heese said:
> 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
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