Weird Water temp needle thing!!!, And side moldings!!

[pbureau@attbi.com (ATS - Patrick Bureau)]

Aaron,

You have to love them electrical gremlins.. it could be numerous things, but
I would suggest to verify that all your ground straps are in good shape and
bolted down, I would even push you to replace every single one with a nice
Size 2 or 1 battery cable. I did this on my car when I had gremlins, and
they went away instantly and I gained 1.45 volts on my volts gauge.

Molding mod, yeah did this about 6 months ago, but I took the easy way out,
yanked on them, then tossed the car to the painters shop to be repainted..
they just sanded that off in no time at all. :)

PS: you swear a lot don't you ? (hehhehehe)

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Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:48 PM
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Subject: Weird Water temp needle thing!!!, And side moldings!!


List,

         This morning when i got into my car, the water temp needle was
stuck right in the middle like it was still at the temp that the car was
when i shut it off the night before, pretty weird, but ya know whats
weirder, when i turned the power on the needle bottomed out and wouldnt come
up. So i drive to work, work is about 20 mins away, so about a minute before
i pull in the needle starts to work again, so i park and i shut off the car
and turn it back on and its working now, L E D lights up and everything,
pretty weird huh. Oh the gas needle would not bottom out all the way too,
this was when i first got in the car, no Power no nothing , the needles just
hovered. I have a TT fuel inrichment device but i took it off cause i
thought it was fucking up, but that wasnt it, its still off.
         Oh also tonight from 6 to about a half hour ago i took the molding
off my car (88 16v), and let me tell you first hand.............ITS  A
BITCH, it was a fucking pain in my ass lemme tell ya, and i work at the
dealership, i had a heat gun chemicals EVERYTHING. what i ended up doing was
just tearing the moldings off so it left the nasty shit underneath right!!,
then i took our steamer that thing we wash cars with and just sat there and
shot it off with the steamer since its so hot and shoots such a sharp stream
it took that shit off in a second, but the problem was it left all this
clear adhesive under that, so then i had to use thinner to melt that shit
off there, it took FOREVER, about an hour and a half, then after i got it
all off i had to completely buff the whole car, but let me also tell ya its
a totally worth it project, the body looks smoother now, doesnt have those
gay ass 80s moldings, anyways, just wanted to say its a pretty cool little
mod to do if you have the right tools. If anyone has any suggestions about
my temp needle thing lemme know.

Aaron
88 16v
Sacramento, CA