NinerBikes wrote:
It's rather simple... see those gauges in your dash? See the red marks? Don't ever operate the vehicle in a manner that gets the gauges near or in the red marks. RED MEANS STOP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING to cause the needles to run near or in the red zone. Don't go there. It's that simple, not complicated. Running in the red has always come with caveats and warnings, in life. Nothing new here. It's just the dumbing down of America that is increasing.
Red means "don't go there", unless you want things to get expensive, complicated and broken on your piece of equipment.
Is that too hard a concept to grasp?
Good advice, but it doesn't work with many of the "idiot gauges" out there. For instance the water temperature gauge in my '00 Ford will show normal until it's too hot and then it will snap instantly to the red without letting you know you're getting close. The oil gauge in my '05 Envoy displays a computer generated pressure. As long as the pressure is over some threshold it indicates everything's normal. A fraction below the threshold it indicates zero.
