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01-08-2018, 05:13 PM
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*****UPDATE....Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on...UPDATE. Please read last post!!!*******
Ok......2006 LaCrosse/ 3.8L/80,000miles.
Today I noticed that the temp gauge stayed all the way cool and the check engine light came on. I looked at the two wire sensor under the thermostat housing and checked 0V on one wire and 1.55 V on the other when connected. When disconnected I had 4.65 V on one wire and 0V on the other. The resistance was 290 ohms across both wires going to the sensor. I assumed there was only one temp sensor feeding both the computer and gauge? Is this right? What do you all think? Sensor bad? Is there an easy check to see if the sensor is bad? I have tried to find some scale showing me the resistance/deg F nut no luck. Anyway....thanks guys Last edited by Homeby51; 06-13-2018 at 11:26 AM. 
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01-08-2018, 08:05 PM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
I'm not 100% on your model, but a lot of vehicles have two separate sensors. One for the gauge, and one for the ECU.
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01-08-2018, 10:50 PM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
according to my chart, 287 ohms is equal to 85C, which is 185F.....
So 290 ohms would be about 183F..... Would like to see live data vs the gage data... Was P0128 set? I have had cars idling in the bay in the garage where it is warm, and the needle slowly moves up to normal......but go out on the highway and it drops immediately(especially in this cold weather).......fix, thermostat...
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01-09-2018, 09:01 AM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
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I can't imagine thermostat because the needle on gauge was set all the way on cold. Even when I drive the car without a thermostat (which I did at one time for about a month) the needle came up to about 1/4 gauge. BTW...I'm in the Keys so it's 75* down here...
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01-09-2018, 11:40 AM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
Ok....found the chart and everything looks good with resistance checks at certain temps. I checked for input voltage supplied to ECT and it had about 4.9V...which I assume is correct. I also scanned the codes and they were P0116, P0115, P1116, etc.. they all indicated ETC problems.
After these checks, the gauge is starting to work now. I assume a loose or dirty connection that I "repaired" by fiddling with it BUT the engine light is still on. I disconnected the battery for 20 secs. and the engine light still stays on. I guess I'll have to go to the store and rescan my codes now.... On a side note...I noticed when the temp gauge stopped working, I noticed that the Voltage information on the digital instrument cluster only read 12.8 V. I put a meter on alternator output and it was a normal 14.8V. So there was a big discrepancy. Now that the temp gauge started working, the Voltage reads 14.8 on the instrument LED cluster, which matches my meter perfectly.... Thanks
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01-10-2018, 09:05 AM
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01-10-2018, 04:19 PM
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01-11-2018, 07:28 AM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
When you checked the voltage on the wires, how did you do this?
Did you attach meter to ground, and with harness disconnected, touch each lead one at a time? In this scenario, you would get the voltage readings you got... Did you connect both leads to each wire in the harness? Doing it this way, you should have got around 5.0 volts, but if you got 0.0 volts, that means there is an open in either wire......when you do this test, you should flex the harness wire to see if the voltage drops, indicating a bad connection/open wire....
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01-11-2018, 08:17 AM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
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01-12-2018, 09:29 PM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
That's true but if the ground circuit isn't tested, there will be no signal to the PCM........an open circuit is high resistance which results in a low coolant data reading....
That's why I would attach both leads to the harness, key on, engine not running, and watch the meter for a voltage change from 5.0 volts as you flexed the both wires......
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06-13-2018, 11:24 AM
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Re: UPDATE****Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on*****UPDATE
Ok...to recap.....basically, every once in a while my temp gauge stops working (all the way to left) and my computer throws a P0115 code. Here's the thing.....I hook up my scan tool and read that the ECM is showing the correct temp but the gauge still doesn't work. As soon as I clear the fault the gauge starts working and the Engine light goes off.
Is this normal? Does a temporary fault glitch kill the output to the gauge and does it require a reset to get that temperature data flowing to the gauge again? Thanks
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06-13-2018, 10:19 PM
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Re: Temp gauge not working and Check Engine Light on.
You can answer your own question, by disconnecting the temp sensor, the code will set and the gage should go to low........now reconnect(do all this without shutting the engine off).......
The problem could be the sensor, or either line to it from the PCM....or the PCM itself, which is very unlikely....
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