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Published 10/11/2017 at 17:08

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Started her up to find this message. The coolant gauge continued to be stuck on zero after truck should have warmed up.


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Kinja'd!!! "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
10/11/2017 at 17:11, STARS: 0

Sensor/wiring fail? I could see how “no coolant temp read” could mean “IT MUST BE HOT AAAAAA” to the computer’s tiny brain.

Kinja'd!!! "Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
10/11/2017 at 17:15, STARS: 0

It’s a coolant sensor, IIRC. One of our 6.0 work trucks had the same issue, and I think that was the issue. For the time being, unhooking the battery and hooking it back up will temporarily reset it.

Kinja'd!!! "Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
10/11/2017 at 17:21, STARS: 1

Good to know, I have the 6.0 too.

Kinja'd!!! "Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
10/11/2017 at 17:22, STARS: 0

I would definitely fix it, but we put hundreds of miles on ours in the dead of summer with this issue and it was fine.

Kinja'd!!! "Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
10/11/2017 at 17:28, STARS: 0

For some unknown reason my mind went to a Pontiac Vibe.

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At least there are those scalloped chrome rings so I’m not entirely off base, but still, they’re not very close.

Kinja'd!!! "Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
10/11/2017 at 17:34, STARS: 0

BANKRUPTCY GM A E S T H E T I C

Kinja'd!!! "Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
10/11/2017 at 17:42, STARS: 0

And yet the Vibe’s dash is really just a Toyota Matrix with some bluish white gauge lighting.

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Kinja'd!!! "Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
10/11/2017 at 18:10, STARS: 0

I realized right after I posted.

Kinja'd!!! "TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
10/11/2017 at 19:56, STARS: 0

Did you deliberately go and get photos of both interiors with manuals? Manuals can’t be the first thing that pops up when you search for Matrix and Vibe interiors.

Kinja'd!!! "Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
10/11/2017 at 20:37, STARS: 0

I was looking for a sufficiently high resolution shot of the overall dash, and there happened to be a manual for both flavors of the car. The first generation actually was pretty commonly manual.

Kinja'd!!! "merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc" (merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc)
10/11/2017 at 20:54, STARS: 0

Either the sensor or the stepper motor behind the needle. GM trucks are pretty notorious for them going bad. Does it needle sweep on startup?

Kinja'd!!! "Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
10/11/2017 at 21:02, STARS: 1

Look at the message, I think it’s just the sensor.

Also what isn’t notorious on gm trucks, the engine block?

Kinja'd!!! "Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
10/11/2017 at 21:04, STARS: 0

Yeah but I would like the a/c

Kinja'd!!! "Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
10/11/2017 at 21:32, STARS: 0

Oh I know, but I’m just saying you are good until you can scan it/fix it. AC will kick back on when you remove the battery.

Kinja'd!!! "merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc" (merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc)
10/11/2017 at 21:44, STARS: 0

Good call, missed the message in the DIC.

Kinja'd!!! "Shoop" (shoopdawoop993)
10/12/2017 at 19:47, STARS: 0

Was it an intermittent issue? It went away today.

Kinja'd!!! "Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies" (jordanwphillips)
10/12/2017 at 20:08, STARS: 0

It’s probably been 6 months and 50k miles for me of driving something, so I don’t really remember.