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2005 Sunfire's temperature gauge doesn't go to 0 when car shuts off.
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jcole2051
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Feb 8, 2016, 7:12 AM
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2005 Sunfire's temperature gauge doesn't go to 0 when car shuts off.
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2005 Pontiac Sunfire, 2.2 ECOTEC, 177,000 miles. One night I was just driving and the temperature gauge slowly started creeping up pas mid and sat around the 4/5 mark and when I got home and turned the car off it dropped to mid and stayed. Next couple days the gauge was fine. More often this is happening now. Today the gauge went as far left as physically possible. No actual signs overheating. My only thought is my plastic over my right side of gauges has been cracked open and has a hole in it and the needle could have physically been moved maybe?
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Tom Greenleaf
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Feb 8, 2016, 7:27 AM
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Re: 2005 Sunfire's temperature gauge doesn't go to 0 when car shuts off.
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First thing is verify that it's wrong when reading hotter than you've ever seen it normally. Can measure temp of heat to floor ducts with a thermo for an idea or better an infrared touchless thermo right at thermostat housing. Verify fans come on while observing as well.
Note - if heat goes cold and temp reads high it's probably really overheating! Air from boiling doesn't blow warm/hot air.
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Next: You gotta tell me what gauge looks like. Is it an actual needle that moves or just an image of a needle?
Once in a blue moon you can find a trip odometer near one that sticks and with super fine wire sold for arts and crafts if you can get thru there just touch it ever so carefully when one is really stuck and it ends it. Must be lucky to be close and may not work.
First verify that the reading you do get it correct. Not so worried about where it sets when off,
T
(This post was edited by Tom Greenleaf on Feb 8, 2016, 7:56 AM)
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