'99 GTP Thermometer probs

[GTPgirl]

Yeah, I'm back... this time in a '99 GTP Coupe. The '97 kinda got totalled...Ford F-350 pulled out in front of me. Yeah. Fun. Still got the avatar of my '97, but only cause I haven't made pictures of my '99 yet.

Anyway, the climate control, where it displays the external temperature, is messed up. For example, it was around 75 degrees outside today, but my car was showing 44. Sometimes it works right, and displays the correct temperature, but most times it doesn't. Anyone else had this problem, and if you did, was it expensive to fix?

[Ripn12s]

The sensor is on the left front side of the car, infront of the radiator.

If your standing infront of the car. On the 99's you might have to take off that plastic part to see it.

Should be a $12 fix, sorry dont have the part number

[kilroypr]

99 have a lot of good stuff. Before spending the $12.00 go and check that all the cables from and too the connector are properly installed and clean. If sometimes it works could be a loose wire

[grandprixgt300]

yea i'm having the same problem on my 99 GT, and last summer sometimes it would say it was like 20 out when it was actually 90+ and the freakn air conditioning would stop working which really sucked...do u know if this is still a $12 fix?

[Ripn12s]

I shorted out my sensor and had the same problem. In 100+ deg heat it would read around 44 and ofcourse the air conditioning didnt work.

Go get a new sensor

[Ripn12s]

I shorted out my sensor and had the same problem. In 100+ deg heat it would read around 44 and ofcourse the air conditioning didnt work.

Go get a new sensor or make sure the sensor is plugged in. I know there was some girl on here before that had body work done and they disconnected the sensor and that was the only problem

[GTPgirl]

Thanks y'all...I probably could have took the car to the dealership where my dad used to work, and had this fixed, but it sounds like a pretty cheap, simple fix, so I think I'll just handle it myself. Of course, they guy at Advance the other night seemed shocked that I was going to install my own wiper blades, so he'd really be shocked about me doing this.

[Ripn12s]

Of course, they guy at Advance the other night seemed shocked that I was going to install my own wiper blades, so he'd really be shocked about me doing this.

Probably not shocked but turned on.

Chicks that work on their own cars = hot

[grandprixgt300]

i would just like to state that i agree with ripn12s

[GTPgirl]

Lol, if I could just get my best friend (whom I've liked for a LONG time) to agree with you. I always thought a guy would like having a girl like that, but apparently not him. *Shrug* Oh well, I enjoy doing it.

[GTPgirl]

Well, got my ambient air sensor...cost me $6.16. Got it put on today...seems to have solved my thermometer probs. Took all of five minutes to change it...turns out it was easier to reach up from underneath than to go in from the top.

[fast98gtp]

did you get it from an auto parts store or the dealer?

[GTPgirl]

Dealership. It's a dealer-only part, so they said at Advance. But my dad used to work at a Chevrolet dealership in Fort Payne, so I get my parts at cost. I think retail was only a little over 8 bucks, so still not too bad.