Sport45 wrote:
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.
No one with a smart phone, the Torque Pro App and an ELM 327 OBD II bluetooth adapater uses idiot gauges any more. They get real, from the ECM, to the single digit degree numbers real time, digitally, not on an analogue gauge that the ECM dumbs down, because too many people freaked out and complained that the gauge actually moved upwards due to work being performed going up hill.
Torque Pro application for AndroidIf every one here was forced to ride a mountain bike up hill, up various grades, long grades, you'd think twice about putting your foot deep into the pedal going up hill and going fast, and you'd have much more appreciation for how hard you are working your motor, by doing so. Carry 3 liters of water on your back on a mountain bike, up hill, heck, how about a couple of 6 packs of beer even, and you'll gain an appreciation for work being done, by you, not by your engine and fossil fuel.
