Low Coolant!! Low Temp???
Low Coolant!! Low Temp??? I have a question and I hope you guys can help me. My low coolant light came on but my car still runs in the 170-180 degrees. I also check the coolant and the radiator is topped of. What can be causing this light to come on? Is it even a low coolant light it is on the top left, red, looks like a square with little waves on top and an arrow pointing down. 
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Sounds like a bad sensor, it's on the passenger side near the top of the radiator...about $30?? at the dealer. Think they did away with them in '00, my car doesn't have one - seen posts where guys just unplugged theirs, light goes off and just check the fluid once in a while.
Originally Posted by 1320_Racing
Is it even a low coolant light it is on the top left, red, looks like a square with little waves on top and an arrow pointing down.
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Bro
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Bro
Sorry - it's just that all those damn cryptic signals on the dash start to look alike. Can't they just ahve a small dot-matrix screen (like the odomoeter) that has messages scroll across it in plain English? Jeez, why do I have to think of EVERYTHING!!
Originally Posted by 00 Trans Ram
It means that you have really wavy hair, and you need to do something to make it lay down.
Sorry - it's just that all those damn cryptic signals on the dash start to look alike. Can't they just ahve a small dot-matrix screen (like the odomoeter) that has messages scroll across it in plain English? Jeez, why do I have to think of EVERYTHING!!
Sorry - it's just that all those damn cryptic signals on the dash start to look alike. Can't they just ahve a small dot-matrix screen (like the odomoeter) that has messages scroll across it in plain English? Jeez, why do I have to think of EVERYTHING!!
I should have known
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Originally Posted by 00 Trans Ram
ICan't they just ahve a small dot-matrix screen (like the odomoeter) that has messages scroll across it in plain English? Jeez, why do I have to think of EVERYTHING!!
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Originally Posted by 2001NBMZ28
Sounds like a bad sensor, it's on the passenger side near the top of the radiator...about $30?? at the dealer. Think they did away with them in '00, my car doesn't have one - seen posts where guys just unplugged theirs, light goes off and just check the fluid once in a while.
Hey I unplugged it, and light gone thanks. now....any advice for the Security light
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Other than trying the spare key, or cleaning the one you're using, don't know. You didn't mention any starting problems...did it just come on? I'd do a search/start another thread, someone here will know the answer.
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I had the same problem. I rebooted the computer (disconnect and then reconnect the battery) and it whent away. Please try this first before chassing after sensors or other stuff. As a rule of thumb, this procedure should be done first, whenever you get an error code, especially if it is intermitant.
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I had the same problem. I rebooted the computer (disconnect and then reconnect the battery) and it whent away. Please try this first before chassing after sensors or other stuff. As a rule of thumb, this procedure should be done first, whenever you get an error code, especially if it is intermitant.
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Just unplug it. (the sensor). They always go out and as long as you check your coolant light once in awhile there really is no need for it because once that light was to go on you'd be overheating anyway. Kind of a dummy light.