Date:         Tue, 5 Sep 2000 23:33:39 PDT
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: flashing temp light
Comments: To: inua@HIWAAY.NET
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My LED red light goes on without flashing when it overheats. It did this
twice: once when the belt for the water pump and battery shredded itself
because the PO's mechanic installed a water pump and put the part for the
belt on backward, another time was when the white plastic bleeder for the
rear heater poped itself like a cork from a bottle of champaign.
(Interesting that tiico has an automatic engine shut off - none of the other
options do do they?) The burn of the comes in phased in as if you were
turning a light on with a sliding toggle - I think, if I recall correctly,
that it has quicker response than the temperature guage


>From: John Rodgers <inua@HIWAAY.NET>
>
>The light you speak of may flash from a malfunction in the circuitry, but I
>would suspect otherwise. And although I have heard it serves as an overheat
>warning light for the coolant, it seems redundant, when you have a
>temperature
>gage that tells you what the coolant is doing. So I don't rely on that as a
>function.
>

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