allenmaty

What is with these gauges? The oil and volt gauges never move from their usual point. They should go up and down at least a little from idle to normal driving rpm...

AzPete

They are idiot lights with a needle.....

Bad_Pony

My volt gauge goes down a bit when cranking then goes up to halfway and stays there. My oil gauge goes up just past halfway when cold and drops back just a hair or two after the engine gets hot.

allenmaty

I was wondering if they are dummy gauges, if they are, that is pretty lame. I will have to watch very closely...

clowe1965

They are heavily filtered/averaged so that they won't be jumping up and down. If they weren't people would think their car was behaving erratically and take it to the dealer all the time. Try activating engineering test mode and watch the actual numbers if your interested. Other than that you'll have to get some gauges if you want to monitor it full time.

allenmaty

Engineering mode? How do I activate that? I want!

clowe1965

You have to do it every time you start the car, same thing as sport mode. With the key off, hold down the system and reset buttons. Start the car, still holding the buttons down. The message center will eventually flash "engineering test mode" and then hitting the system button cycles through all the data. Digital speedo, tach, fuel level, bunch of other sensors that i cant remember. To exit you have to cut the engine off.

allenmaty

cool, thanks, I'll give it a try after work. I do have the scangauge II that has access to a lot of sensors, but not all of them.

clowe1965

Its cool, but not very useful other than diagnostics. Most annoying part is if you go past a setting, because there are about 50 of them and you have to scroll all the way back to get to it.