wheelz22
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- October 26, 2014
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- 07 Explr XLT (my 5th one)
Hi everyone...happy New Year. Wishing good health to everyone here.
Got a curious one...it's probably nothing, but we'll see. It's 40 degrees F today here in NJ (and verified by my instrument cluster outside temp gauge when I ran an errand this morning), so I figured I'd give my battery terminals a quick check, a little cleaning and give my battery a nice charge after the single digit temps we had right after Christmas for about a week. It's charging right now...battery is an Interstate...3 years old. Anyway, I had the terminals off of the battery for about 10-15 minutes while I cleaned things up. When I turned the ignition on the instrument cluster, it was reading 140 degrees F, instead of 40 degrees F. Will that reset itself after a short drive ? It's not the first time I have ever had the terminals off the battery, but I never saw it do that before. I touched nothing but the battery terminals. Anyone ever see this before ? Thanks.
Got a curious one...it's probably nothing, but we'll see. It's 40 degrees F today here in NJ (and verified by my instrument cluster outside temp gauge when I ran an errand this morning), so I figured I'd give my battery terminals a quick check, a little cleaning and give my battery a nice charge after the single digit temps we had right after Christmas for about a week. It's charging right now...battery is an Interstate...3 years old. Anyway, I had the terminals off of the battery for about 10-15 minutes while I cleaned things up. When I turned the ignition on the instrument cluster, it was reading 140 degrees F, instead of 40 degrees F. Will that reset itself after a short drive ? It's not the first time I have ever had the terminals off the battery, but I never saw it do that before. I touched nothing but the battery terminals. Anyone ever see this before ? Thanks.