In line with trends, universal symbols have replaced the written word, not the least because of the number of warning lights on a dash these days. FWIW, they should *all* light up for the POST when you first turn the ignition on.
Haynes manual exist so the DIYers can tinker with their cars and stuff them up. They also don't go into detail where a trained mechanic needs it. Haynes manuals also don't cover all the owner required items.
You aught to try it with electric power steering - - - - - -
Caddie Northstar could run a couple hundred miles with no water. Crawl anyway. About the only thing it had going for it though - - -
I don't know what backwater you live in but
Like a 1911 and several spare mags? Oh, I forgot, you live someplace where pointy scissors are illegal to possess outside of the sewing room.
Why call it an idiot light? Why is it idiotic not to notice a guage moving gradually to the right? If you're driving at a constant speed, or don't care if you break the speed limit, you have no need to look at the guages.
So what's the point in the guage? It either points to medium where it should be, or it's too high. So you only need "ok" and "warning", not a dial taking up space and costing more to make.
Why do you glance at your guages every minute? Because that's how long it takes for an overheat.
Never seen any car do anything other than correct temperature or catastrophic overheat.
They wear out, if you buy them for £500, they die after a few years.
Stop repeating yourself. Splitting the conversation into 5 parts and responding in the same way every time makes you look like an American. Are Aussies as thick as Americans?
I don't.
Bullshit unless a hose blows and that doesn't happen often and the light tells you if that has happened anyway.
Because you are too stupid to look at the gauges.
Bullshit they do. The Golf lasted for 45 f****ng years and only ended up not worth fixing because I was actually stupid enough to not fix the known windscreen leak that eventually rusted the floor.
That's drivel too. Mate of mine bought a couple of Hyundai Grandeurs for less than that and they didn't.
He's just got a Merc C180 for less than that and all it needs is a new sensor.
Go and f*ck yourself, again.
Everyone can see that you are lying thru your f****ng teeth, as always.
I don't know how it was mechanically but someone visiting a neighbor had one. It was parked in the driveway facing out and when I rode by it certainly looked like a Cadillac badge. I walked back later to confirm it was a Caddie. Scrolling though Hemmings they aren't that expensive.
I have no idea what the rationale was but when they named one of our product lines 'Northstar' I gagged. At least it doesn't arrive in a cloud of sweet smelling steam.
Cadillac and technology never have mixed well.
What's it like knowing that anyone anywhere could kill you before you had a chance to defend yourself?
The UK.
It's one place your country is more sensible - cars. You also have auto gearboxes in most of them. There really is no point whatsoever in a manual gearbox.
Fuel economy tends to stay pretty much the same, so why monitor it?
Do American cars have overly sensitive indicator cancellers like they do in the UK? They used to be fine but not anymore. We have lots of roundabouts, if you're turning right at one, you indicate right, but obviously you must first enter it by turning left. This cancels the f****ng indicator! (Swap left and right for America). The older ones were far more sensible, you had to turn the wheel in the direction you'd indicated, then it would cancel on the way back to the centre, but now it cancels when you turn it the opposite way, before you've completed the turn.
On a UK car show (Top Gear) they make fun of American cars telling you silly little things like that, and it's usually a "bong!" noise which could mean anything.
ROTFPMSL!
First thing I did was put black gloss paint over the seatbelt warning light. I'll decide if I want to wear it, not my car. My friend's makes a beeping noise, so he bought a seatbelt clip from a scrapyard for a few quid and just leaves that in the slot, it fools the car successfully.
Until they break.
MPG is shown on the dash of all decent cars. And it's blindingly obvious how to drive efficiently, you don't need to monitor it.
140 actually. And what has that to do with anything? I can drive efficiently if I want, but I have no desire to hold everyone up.
What? It just comes on. It says "problem". Not very useful for the driver is it?
I've never known a car do that, mind you I've never owned one newer than 2002. But this should have been present decades ago.
They're only called that by idiots. What do you think is more sensible, warning a driver of impending doom by a light which will be noticed instantly, or moving a needle to the right which they'll notice at some point if they happen to analyze the entire dashboard because they have OCD? A gauge is for things like fuel, which you want a precise reading of, and changes gradually over time. Something which suddenly changes and becomes an urgent problem should have a light.
I guess I don't have a decent car. I find my fuel consumption increases quite a bit when driving a 80 rather than 65. Throw in headwinds and mountains and there is more variability. It's a confirmation of why the gas gauge is dropping rapidly. I usually fuel at about 300 miles but if the consumption is up I plan an earlier stop. In the western US there aren't filling stations behind every bush.
Guess my truck isn't "decent" either - and nor was my Taurus. The new Kia has the built-in trip computer.
I have a scanguage in the truck. I have a totalizer I was going to put in the plane - measures gallons or liters per hour - not per mile - as well as total amount consumed but is no good on a fuel injected engine with bypass.
No OBD2 on the fiat 600D so can't use Scanguage on it. I may hook up the totalizer to monitor furl since the guage is notoriously in-accurate -- - -
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