I think my car has a mind of its own! - Team-2G Mitsubishi Forum

gsxaddict2 · 04-12-2005, 05:40 PM

My car just did the weirdest thing the other night .....i was at a red light and all of a sudden i see my temperature guage go down and shot right back up to the midle :shock: ....i kinda freaked cuz i thought the dam thing was gonna die on me but i realized that my RPM was fine, the car wasnt dieing or nothing....it was fine....but i dont know how the hell the needle decided to drop down and go back up????....anybody know why??

AWDspyder · 04-12-2005, 05:48 PM

If it doesn't happen agian prob just a electric glitch.....dsm goblins under the hood.

2crazy4u · 04-12-2005, 05:56 PM

Maybe the sensor is going out, or the goblins that Kuz mentioned.

SCR · 04-12-2005, 06:18 PM

lol, gotta love those goblins. Have you guys ever dropped a socket extension or socket itself, hear it fall and hit, only to find that its mysteriously disappeared...? I know my buddy accidentally dropped his car keys in his engine bay once, never found them again! and he did turbo swap, motor rebuild from RRE, and no sign of his keys!!! lol

DR1665 · 04-12-2005, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by gsxaddict2

all of a sudden i see my temperature guage go down and shot right back up to the midle :shock: ...

While it might just be an intermittent electrical glitch, you might check your coolant level and think about replacing the thermostat and radiator cap. When the coolant level is low enough, steam will flow through the system and cause the gauge to peg out hot while you get nothing out of the heater vents. Then it will drop back down as a pocket of coolant gets past the sensors.

Just a thought. Take it as you like. It is the voice of experience talking...

98eclipse · 04-13-2005, 09:25 AM

lol i know exactly what you mean! hear were the thing hits and never find it, i hate it lol

GS-T 99 · 04-13-2005, 09:53 AM

I think the temperature sensor isn´t making good contact or the wire is cut inside in some part

gsxaddict2 · 04-13-2005, 02:20 PM

Yeah I'll check the thing cuz its been happening more often....it goes down and up...down and up....but only sometimes.....

1sweetnopichick · 04-19-2005, 04:13 PM

Instead of being a bad sensor could just be a dirty sensor - that happend to me. Took the air compressor and cleaned it real good - never happened again.

Spyderman4g63 · 04-22-2005, 12:52 PM

Thats generally why we name our cars. By the personality she has. If she seems posessed, a suitable could be "CHRISTINE". After the Horror movie. Or if it seems to do better when babied than "Princess" might be a good choice...
Every car has a mind of its own...Especially DSM's. So have fun comming up with a name.

My cars name is "Pamela"(Anderson)...Because she looks great with her top off.

iNOS_dragRacer · 04-26-2005, 10:05 PM

Hey, about those underhood goblins, the other day I was changing my engines oil and I took it out for a drive afterwords, when I parked it and tried to check the oil, the top of the dipstick disappeared. The acctual stick was there but the thing you pull it out with was gone!! I think I smelled it the other day though... it might have melted to the turbo or something because my engine bay smelled like fried plastic... lol.

gsxaddict2 · 04-27-2005, 11:54 AM

AHHHH!! that sucks.. :shock: ......i wonder how the hell it fell off????

Spyderman4g63 · 04-27-2005, 12:43 PM

Every DSM is different.... Some eat dip sticks, some overheat for no apparent reason. And some throe CEL's for everything, and others you can run without a cat, and emissions plugged in and get no CEL's... :-k So very confusing.