Gauges eratic at startup
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Gauges eratic at startup
Started car after stopping at the store and gauges went wild.
Car started fine and ran fine but as soon as it started all the gauges pegged to the max and back to min several times, then they all maxed for a moment and all of them then went towards their correct readings but stopped in sync with each other at like 70%, 40% 20% in perfect stepped reductions. It was bizarre like the whole gauges system was performing some kind of test on them. Didn't affect the running or driving of the car. No other idiot lights lit up while this was happening.
If this is the start of electrical gremlins im offing this thing on a trade in this week!
Car started fine and ran fine but as soon as it started all the gauges pegged to the max and back to min several times, then they all maxed for a moment and all of them then went towards their correct readings but stopped in sync with each other at like 70%, 40% 20% in perfect stepped reductions. It was bizarre like the whole gauges system was performing some kind of test on them. Didn't affect the running or driving of the car. No other idiot lights lit up while this was happening.
If this is the start of electrical gremlins im offing this thing on a trade in this week!
Last edited by briann510; Jul 20, 2010 at 01:05 PM.
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Have the battery checked. Those are usually the signs of a going battery if the alternator works correctly. Gauges will sweep during a low-battery start up. It'll get worse if it is a bad battery.