Rick wrote:
> That year was plagued with ground point problems, causing very strange
> symptoms. I suggest that you locate the ground stud at the base of the trans
> dipstick and clean it up. That fixed my ghost wipers. There are others too;
> one, I believe associated with the body control computer and is under the
> dash.
> Rick

Interesting... thanks for the tip, I'll check that out.

BTW, I should have noted before, on this temp-display thing... I DID do
the requisite Google search first (I'm a 'net old-timer, I know the
drill and nothing I turned up has applied so far other than actually
tracking down and testing the sensor; all the suggestions I found for
onboard diagnostics don't seem to apply to the '96.

> "Matt Ion" > wrote in message
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>>Anyone have any idea why the thermometer display in the overhead console
>>would suddenly start reading 0 degrees, occaisionally dropping to low, low
>>negatives (-75 was observed once!)? The rest of the display (compass,
>>Odometer, DTE, etc.) all works fine, so I suspect a problem with the
>>sensor itself... anyone have an idea where the sensor for this thing is
>>located and if there's any simple test procedure for it (resistance
>>measurement or something)?
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>>There've been a couple other strange electrical problems as well: for the
>>longest time, the left-turn signal would stick on, sometimes immediately
>>on activation, sometimes after a couple blinks, and would even stay on
>>with the key turned off. All bulbs, fuses and relays checked fine and it
>>was only on left-turn that it happened. This particular issue went away a
>>couple months ago all by itself, after being an annoyance for several
>>months previously, and hasn't returned since.
>>
>>Another more current oddity is that sometimes the wipers will go on steady
>>"low" when set to any intermittant setting, and when this happens, turning
>>them off causes them to stop instantly where they are. This happens only
>>very intermittantly and disappears as quickly as it appears.
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