On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:39:46 -0800 (PST), Garrett Fulton
wrote:

On Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 11:22:10 PM UTC-5, Clare wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:56:25 -0800 (PST), Garrett Fulton
wrote:

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Don't have to read it. I was a mechanic for many years. They've been
doing it for years. I've worked on a lot of vehicles with the "idiot
guage" including my last Chryslers and my 1885 Pontiac Trans Sport
3.8. Most of them can't even be converted to a full guage by
replacing the sensor because they do NOT have a resistor in the
circuit. The meter is designed to go half scale when the sensor is
grounded.

I'll accept it if you saw it that much. Ford was the only one I'd known about. I was an airline mechanic. We sure had nothing like that. Just my .02, but it seems like deceiving a buyer to sell him a car with an oil pressure gauge that is nothing but an idiot light.
Hopefully the pilots aren't as "brain dead" as a lot of car
owners/drivers. The ones I had the most trouble with were bloody
engineers and hoity-toity "connoisseurs" who fancied themselves
automotive experts just because they could afford to buy whatever
crossed their fancy at the time. "MY porsche never had that kind of
pressure fluctuation" (or insert Audi, Mercedes, Ferrari, or whatever)
after buying a new Supra or whatever.