Outside Temp Sensor

[Gary406]

can sum1 please tell me were the outside temp sensor is located ?

i figured it will be best to put my aftermarket temp sensor in the same place

[Gary406]

any1 know ? maybe not

[lozz]

ithink the sensor is located in the wing mirrors,
icouid be wrong tho,


lozz,

[steve_earwig]

Yep, it's in the mirror, so you've got sod all chance of working the wire in there

[Archangel]

Yep, it's in the mirror, so you've got sod all chance of working the wire in there

any chance of a pic of location ??

[Busman]

Passenger wing mirror underneath you will see a little nipple. Thats it. You take the glass out to change it. New one is £15ish from Pug. I just cut and spliced the wires works fine.

[Gary406]

think i'll put it on the bulkhead next to the pollen filter,

should be away from wind blast in there

[FarmerPug]

i wouldnt mind a barometer in my car, i would be able to determine more about the weather with one of these, how hard would it have been to have added a full weather station that displayed all through the mfd, with altitude, air pressure, wind chill, wind direction, moon phase.

[highlander]

Too much information. The MFD is designed to show at a glance the kind of basic information you want - i.e. outside temperature, time, radio station, trip computer. If you put too much on it, then the driver would be tempted to spend more time looking at the screen and less time looking at the road ahead.

If the on-board computer were able to read the air pressure, wind speed and direction, humidity, etc. and record it over a period of time, it might be able to warn you in a basic way that there is a change to the weather coming up - but this would be very difficult to do in a meaningful way (remember, your car is supposed to be constantly on the move - so the wind speed and direction will constantly change, pressure will change as you go up or downhill, humidity will change all the time also). Certainly wouldn't be worthwhile doing, and the MET office would almost always do a better job of weather prediction than an on-board computer on the car.

[FarmerPug]

your letting reality get in the way of an imaginitve idea, but since thats out of the question put a lottery number predictor into the mfd instead.

[rwb]

What about a compass on the MFD?
Cars with satnav know what direction they're going in.
The readout could go on the trip-page that has the useless globe graphic.

[highlander]

the useless globe graphic

I had wondered whether the GPS logo page on the MFD actually did something, i.e. when the SatNav is working, but you're listening to music, it might show something. But since my SatNav is more temporary than a cheese sandwich is, I've never actually used it. Does it actually ever go away?

[FarmerPug]

could a computerist change the globe symbol to a peugeot lion?

[highlander]

Only if that computerist had the ability to write to Read-Only Memory (ROM) - I strongly suspect that the GPS logo will be on a read-only part of the MFD unit.

[FarmerPug]

what if the computerist just read the whole mfd program and did some computering to change it on his read copy?