Two oil warning lights on '84 Reliant?

I had the car parked just so the sun was shining through the rear window
when I happened to notice something. There is a row of three indicator lamps
between the speedometer and fuel/charge/water temp gauges. On my car they
are unused--the bottom two being for "door open" and "gate open". The manual
explains these well enough, stating that door open is only for commercial
vehicles and gate open is for wagons.

The topmost indicator is not mentioned, but with the sun shining on it, I
could clearly see that it has an icon for oil pressure in it. That makes no
sense at all considering that an oil pressure indicator already exists at
the far right of the cluster.

Why is there a second oil pressure warning area? Was it used in another
vehicle model? Or is it just for slow learners? <g>

William

"William R. Walsh" m>
wrote in message news:Ml_Li.112315$Xa3.87922@attbi_s22...
> I had the car parked just so the sun was shining through the rear window
> when I happened to notice something. There is a row of three indicator
lamps
> between the speedometer and fuel/charge/water temp gauges. On my car they
> are unused--the bottom two being for "door open" and "gate open". The
manual
> explains these well enough, stating that door open is only for commercial
> vehicles and gate open is for wagons.
>
> The topmost indicator is not mentioned, but with the sun shining on it, I
> could clearly see that it has an icon for oil pressure in it. That makes
no
> sense at all considering that an oil pressure indicator already exists at
> the far right of the cluster.
>
> Why is there a second oil pressure warning area? Was it used in another
> vehicle model?

Probably. Probably the stylist decided to move the pressure indicator and
the bean counters decided to reuse the same dash plastic.

Ted

"William R. Walsh" m>
wrote in message news:Ml_Li.112315$Xa3.87922@attbi_s22...
> I had the car parked just so the sun was shining through the rear window
> when I happened to notice something. There is a row of three indicator
lamps
> between the speedometer and fuel/charge/water temp gauges. On my car they
> are unused--the bottom two being for "door open" and "gate open". The
manual
> explains these well enough, stating that door open is only for commercial
> vehicles and gate open is for wagons.
>
> The topmost indicator is not mentioned, but with the sun shining on it, I
> could clearly see that it has an icon for oil pressure in it. That makes
no
> sense at all considering that an oil pressure indicator already exists at
> the far right of the cluster.
>
> Why is there a second oil pressure warning area? Was it used in another
> vehicle model? Or is it just for slow learners? <g>
>
> William
>
>
Because that vehicle could have been equipped with a gauge or a lite, since
you have a gauge there is no lite. Your vehicle has a sending unit for a
gauge

Glenn Beasley
Chrysler Tech

"William R. Walsh" m>
wrote in message news:Ml_Li.112315$Xa3.87922@attbi_s22...
> I had the car parked just so the sun was shining through the rear window
> when I happened to notice something. There is a row of three indicator
lamps
> between the speedometer and fuel/charge/water temp gauges. On my car they
> are unused--the bottom two being for "door open" and "gate open". The
manual
> explains these well enough, stating that door open is only for commercial
> vehicles and gate open is for wagons.
>
> The topmost indicator is not mentioned, but with the sun shining on it, I
> could clearly see that it has an icon for oil pressure in it. That makes
no
> sense at all considering that an oil pressure indicator already exists at
> the far right of the cluster.
>
> Why is there a second oil pressure warning area? Was it used in another
> vehicle model? Or is it just for slow learners? <g>
>
> William
>
You have a dash with a light. But if you had an optional dash display with
a gauge, there may ALSO be a light with the gauge. Even if they never
shipped a gauge display dash, it may have been a design option at one time.
Although it seems nowadays that a lot of dashes with gauges have the
idiot lights also incorporated into the gauge.