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(Message started by: Jacko on Oct 31^st, 2006, 3:32pm)

Title: TEMPERATURE GUAGE
Post by Jacko on Oct 31^st, 2006, 3:32pm

Just purchased my first Scorpio and am wondering if the temperature gauge should move to 3 o'clock position after driving for 20 mins or stay still. It doesn' seem to move ???

Title: Re: TEMPERATURE GUAGE
Post by craig on Oct 31^st, 2006, 4:03pm

could well be the sender unit... :-/
which engine do you have?

Title: Re: TEMPERATURE GUAGE
Post by Spannerdemon on Oct 31^st, 2006, 4:08pm

Or you could try the Instrument Reset.

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/instreset.htm

Still haven't mastered the HERE technique!! :D

Title: Re: TEMPERATURE GUAGE
Post by Jacko on Oct 31^st, 2006, 4:16pm

I have 2.3 estate. Already tried instrument reset for a problem with sticking speedo

Title: Re: TEMPERATURE GUAGE
Post by harry.m1byt on Oct 31^st, 2006, 5:15pm

on 10/31/06 at 16:16:22, Jacko wrote:

I have 2.3 estate. Already tried instrument reset for a problem with sticking speedo

You might take a look at:-

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Advice;action=display;num=1162164188

My gauge usually wondered about, but the same fault could have produced a cold reading and often did.

Have you checked that the engine is up to temperature? Feel around the water pump to check it is hot if not it will probably be the thermostat which has failed. Shorting the plug on top the sender unit to the engine should produce a maximum reading on the gauge, if not suspect the wiring, or a poor cnnection on the multi-plugs, or the gauge.

If the engine is hot and the shorting at the plug moves the gauge into the red, then the sender unit itself must be faulty.

Title: Re: TEMPERATURE GUAGE
Post by craig on Nov 1^st, 2006, 8:20am

as it's the 2.3 i would suspect the sender unit,the one that screws into the inlet manifold,there are 2 senders,1 for the engine management (ignore that 1),and the 2nd for the actual gauge,about a year ago theyt were approx £15.00,cant see them being to dearer now :-/