Outside Temperature reading
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Outside Temperature reading
Until about a week ago, the outside temperature reading on my '00 gave fairly accurate readings as compared with the radio weather man. Now all of the sudden, it consistantly reads about 10 degrees warmer than it should. Is this something that can or should be repaired? With computers monitoring everything, my concern is that it will affect something that I'm unaware of. My first thought was that the sensor is covered in road crud from winter driving, but I don't have a clue where to find it.
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With mine, the reading remains about 10 degrees off, even after driving around for awhile. I pulled the sensor out and cleaned it, but that didn't seem to make a difference. I'm thinking about replacing it. I guess my real question is, does this reading affect more than just the display? If it's just an anoyance, I can probably live with it.
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Mine started about a month ago when it go real cold. It's always shows 10 degrees warmer than it actually is. At startup it is always a little off but self corrects quickly. Now it just corrects to temp plus 10. Just got back from lunch were it is 3 degrees currently and the Exped showed 11-13 degress the entire time.
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Your experience eliminates engine heat being a factor when blown forward by the wind. My guess is that since this is not a critical safety item, the sensors and board are not sheilded from voltage spikes and RFI. A random event, like passing by a defective neon sign can cause many electronics to set new parameters if they are not shielded. Maybe this is the case since it is not a widespread problem. The second guess is corrosion on a connection somewhere, changing voltages to or from the sensor.
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you have to find out what for d has for a tolerance on this sensor it could be +/- 10degs or more....might only be right on calm days when the vehicle isn't moving and the sensor isn't wet...i would never trust those things....too many variables...just take it for an idea...kinda like when you first open the door it's cold or hot.....it should read that instead of a temperature
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I'm sure you're right that there's some sort of tolerance level built-in that is effected by salt, sand, whatever, but I hope it isn't 10 degrees. If that's the case, should I treat the climate control reading/output on the inside of the truck the same way? I would hope that when I set the controls to 70 degrees, 60 and/or 80 wouldn't be an acceptable tolerance (at least not to my wife!).
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if it's anything like their oill Press. sensor i had in my old thunderbird...it's probably not very accurate. told me oil pressure was normal but it wasn't big engine repair and aftermarket oil press gauge told me factory gauge was way off and would show it was low oil pressure only when it was too late...but that could be just a bad sensor also...did have 180k+ on car. throw a thermometer in the car and see if the climate control is close, i'm curious if the wife's accurate in her Taurus
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Has anybody gone to Ford and replaced their outside temp sensor?
Mine reads about 30 degrees too high all of the time. Some of the time just after the key is turned on the readout will read 105 degrees then go back to its new normal of +30 degrees.
Mine reads about 30 degrees too high all of the time. Some of the time just after the key is turned on the readout will read 105 degrees then go back to its new normal of +30 degrees.
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As I have an extended warranty, I'm waiting for something important to go before I bring it in. If/when that happens, I'll have them look into the issue and if they replace it, I'll report back. Don't know when that'll be... I suspect nothing'll go wrong until the day my warranty is one day expired.
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Sorry to bring this one back from the dead, but my OAT gauge started acting up about 2 months ago after the truck had been sitting for a month or so. My gauge is off approximately +10 degrees all the time.
Anybody else experience this or have a solution...
Anybody else experience this or have a solution...
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