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Auto Digital Tire Pressure Gauge Survey
Around 12/20/2004 5:16 PM, Arif Khokar wrote:
> Mike Romain wrote: > >> Arif Khokar wrote: > > >>> Gee, if the temperature was -40C and your car doesn't start, do you >>> wonder if the battery froze? Would you have it towed to a junkyard >>> believing that's where it belongs? > > >> What good is a gauge my wife can only use 6 months of the year and "I" >> better not forget it is in her glove box where it belongs or it will >> die? > > > IME, they start working again when the temperature goes back up. I have > a digital gauge in my car right now and it still works (the temperature > dropped down to -17 C here). I once left a new CD player I had got for Christmas in the trunk of the car overnight on a sub-zero (F) night. The thing wouldn't function the next morning until it had warmed up quite a bit. Electronics, especially cheap electronics, don't like being too cold. -- ~/Garth |"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. Almgren | I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. ******* | And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant." for secure mail info) --H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) |
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