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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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Sensor/wiring fail? I could see how “no coolant temp read” could mean “IT MUST BE HOT AAAAAA” to the computer’s tiny brain.
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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.
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Good to know, I have the 6.0 too.
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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.
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For some unknown reason my mind went to a Pontiac Vibe.
At least there are those scalloped chrome rings so I’m not
entirely
off base, but still, they’re not very close.
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BANKRUPTCY GM A E S T H E T I C
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And yet the Vibe’s dash is really just a Toyota Matrix with some bluish white gauge lighting.
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I realized right after I posted.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Look at the message, I think it’s just the sensor.
Also what isn’t notorious on gm trucks, the engine block?
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Yeah but I would like the a/c
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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.
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Good call, missed the message in the DIC.
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Was it an intermittent issue? It went away today.
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It’s probably been 6 months and 50k miles for me of driving something, so I don’t really remember.