2010 Hyundai Accent 4-Door Sedan: HAS NO TEMPERATURE GAGE!

Name a few. Sounds like urban legend to me. I expect a fake would be
pretty easy to detect as I know when and why my oil pressure and temp
should vary. It would take a pretty sophisticated fake to fool me and
the fake would probably cost as much as the real instrument!

Matt

 

Use a search engine. Look for:
"fake oil gauge"
"fake temperature gauge"
etc.

 

I saw a few forums about Ford pickups that claim Ford replaced the
original analog sending unit with a pressure switch and a resistor to
place the gauge in the "normal" zone. It didn't sound like a fake gauge
to me as the forums discussed out to replace the switch with a sending
unit so that the gauge would work as intended.

I would call that a fake sending unit, not a fake gauge. Then again,
Ford F-150s are designed now for soccer moms who won't know how a gauge
works. The claim is that Ford did this as they got tired of complaints
from consumers who don't realize that oil pressure varies with different
conditions. Given that Ford is targeting the F-150 at a different
market now, this isn't surprising. Just another reason to stay with
Chevy or Dodge.

This didn't sound like a wide-spread practice from what I saw with a
quick search.

 

Well, most systems are pressurized, but my guess is around 220 to 230
degrees F. - It must depend on the car.

 

I can confirm that my father's Aerostar had a fake oil gauge.

 

I bought a 2010 Accent, but, being old-school, didn't think to look
for or ask about a temperature gauge at time of purchase.

And the salesman didn't tell me about this missing instrument,
either. Since that day he's been hard to contact.

Intentional?

I'll probably never know.

But the absence of an in-dash analog gauge has made me uncomfortable,
and skeptical. Like what else DOESN'T this motor vehicle have?

 

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Do you really think the salesman knows or cares or would bother to tell you?
Be serious man, in 50 years of car buying, temperature gauges has never come
up. Many cars do not have anything but a gas gauge these days. Most
drivers have no idea what they mean, what they do, or what they should look
for. Idiot lights go back over 50 years.

You can buy aftermarket gauges for everything if you really want to know
what is going on. Meantime, as the next 10 drivers what an ammeter is and
see what response you get. Given the reliability of alternators and
batteries, it is not a big deal not to have one. Same with radiators and
coolants.

For one, it does not have the troubles many other cars have had in the past.
Turn up the radio and enjoy your next cruise around the country. Do that
on a summer day and count how many cars you see on the side of the road
overheating. Coming home from the Jersey shore in the '50's, we see 6 to
12. I cannot recall seeing ONE in the past couple of decades.

 

You know, as a kid who bought a lot of cheap used cars and still
today I buy cheap old cars; I was told and believe that a car with a
temp gauge is more likely to be the better car.

If a car is running hotter than usual, it is likely to be bought in
for servicing.

With an idiot light, there is little warning before the engine just
burns out.

I think a used car without a temp guage should be knocked down a few
hundred bucks for having "unknown wear".

 

If a car is running hotter than usual, it is likely to be bought in

What do you think about an uncalibrated temp gauge? The only ones
I recall seeing (mostly on Toyotas recently, but others in the
1970's) have at most 4 marks: two at the limits of the gauge, Cold
and Hot (call this 0% and 100%, although the needle does move a bit
farther than this), and two (inside the two above, maybe at 10% and
90%) that are presumably have some sort of resemblance to the
temperature range that might be called "normal". No degrees anything
is listed. Near the end of a "normal" drive, be it 10 miles or 50,
it usually reads about 40%.

Did they *ever* make a calibrated temp gauge for normal, consumer-type
cars (as opposed to trucks, tanks, buses, etc.)? How about on a
Ford Model T?

 

Mrs Irish Mike wrote

More fool you to believe that mindless silly shit.

No reason why the computer control system cant tell you that its running
hotter than usual and that is precisely what happens with the better cars.

Pig ignorant lie. If you turn the car off when the light goes on, it cant burn out.

More fool you.

 

I seem to recall in the 1930s some cars had a glass
gauge in the radiator cap, which was outside the car
in those days.

 

I consider this to be a SAFETY ISSUE.

And I intend to file a query with the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA).

http://www.nhtsa.gov

 

More fool you, particularly when that car has a temperature guage and you didnt even notice.

They will file your 'query' in the round filing cabinet under the desk where it belongs.

 

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Yeah, they need a laugh once in a while.

 

You are just one rude a-hole.

But for others:

If you drive a car every day you know where that temp gauge reading
is suppose to be. If it is elevated, then you know something is
amiss-- not enough to trigger the check engine, but enough. An engine
can run hotter (think work harder) if the tires are not properly
inflated, if the brakes do not fully release, if there is junk in
front of the radiator or hanging from the chassis, a fan belt may be
loose and ready to break, anyone of the fluids maybe low.

A cool engine is not good either. If there is no radiator fluid, the
guage will read cool until it is too late.

Next to the gas guage, the temp gauge could be the most important
guage.

I have bought few cars that didn't have a temp guage and if I had a
car without one, I'd buy one and put it on.

 

Mrs Irish Mike wrote

Whereas you are impeccibly polite at all times eh ? Yeah, right.

The check system can do anything you can do you stupid cow.

And the check system can tell you its running hotter than it usually does.

Wrong, as always.

Wrong, as always, particularly when there is a decent check
system which is precisely what all modern cars have.

You have always been and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.

 

I'd gauge from the inane comments here that most posters are at least
a tiny bit irrelevant ...

 

That is too funny.