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On a recent family trip a few miles from our destination, all my vehicle's dash controls went out, then reappeared with a charging system error indicator. Ever
by kbutler 8y ago
On a recent family trip a few miles from our destination, all my vehicle's dash controls went out, then reappeared with a charging system error indicator.
Everything seemed fine - I watched battery gauge and hoped I'd make it. When I got to the destination, I stopped and restarted the engine, and everything looked fine, and the charging system indicator went back to normal.
I noticed afterward that the "Engine Hours", which had been getting close to 10,000, was now in single digits. No other internal counters were reset.
I wondered if it was an overflow condition, but it appears more mundane - many vehicle owners report seemingly random resets. The surprising thing seems to be that it hadn't reset before getting close to 10,000 hours!
- kw71 8y agoWow, that car was driven a lot. All my 20+ year old cars have less than 4000 h.
- kbutler 8y agoOr did their counters reset? ;-) 30 odometer miles per engine hour seems about average (to one significant digit - varies with proportion of highway vs city vs idle hours). That would suggest all your 20+ year old cars are under about 120K miles? Or they have a very high mix of freeway miles. Either way, they're not likely getting the average 10-15k miles per year. Conversely, that rough evaluation is making me question whether my recollection of nearing 10K hours was correct - the vehicle is under 200K miles, which would suggest <20mph average.