Tag: Gauge
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How to know if your vehicle is prone to overheating
Hot summer is around the corner, we find the heat unbearable, so does your vehicle’s engine. The high temperature put a lot of stress on your hard-working engine’s cooling system. Sometimes, if something goes wrong, we find ourselves stranded midway on the boiling highway while exposing directly to the dazzling sunlight. You are sweating. This…
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What does the dashboard display inform you?
Originally, dashboards were made of wood veneer or painted pressed-steel. The basic instruments on a dashboard display are speedometer gauge and fuel gauge. Apart from them, it is also consisted of tachometer, charging system gauge, oil pressure gauge and engine temperature gauge. Have a quick dashboard description and have a basic understanding. The speedometer, one…
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Is the fuel gauge accurate?
A fuel gauge is a device inside of a car or other vehicle that measures the amount of fuel still in the vehicle. It is an aggravating thing when your gauge that doesn’t give an accurate reading, especially when the gauge shows there’s still fuel in the tank when there really is not. So here…
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Tire Pressure Gauges
Whilst on the subject of checking your tires, you really ought to check the pressures once every couple of weeks too. Doing this does rather rely on you having, or having access to a working, accurate tire pressure gauge. If you’ve got one of those free pencil-type gauges that car dealerships give away free, then…
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Car Fuel Gauges
A fuel gauge, also called gas gauge, is an instrument used to indicate the level of fuel contained in a tank i.e. measure the amount of fuel still in the vehicle. Typically, a car fuel gauge consists of two parts-a sensing or sending unit and an indicator. The sensing unit measures the amount of fuel…