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Car Forum / Mazda / Mazda Miata / March 2006NC Oil Presure Guage
Hey, did we get a real oil pressure gauge back now in the NC? It's always really bothered me that Mazda took the low road on the oil pressure gauge issue. Hope they have properly rectified that issue. Chris 99BBB > Hey, did we get a real oil pressure gauge back now in the NC? It's real. Early on when the NC was making the fire engine tour there was a video of the dash while the engine was being revved. Everyone was real excited to see the needle move. It doesn't take much for some of us.  SignatureKen Lyons '97 Brilliant Black/'90 Classic Red Inside the Beltway [Remove the first two digits to reply] >Hey, did we get a real oil pressure gauge back now in the NC? >It's always really bothered me that Mazda took the low road on the oil >pressure gauge issue. > >Hope they have properly rectified that issue. They did. The problem with oil gauges is that dealers get deluged with questions about the customers' oil pressure being wrong. ("It used to be 60 psi, but then I drove and I now I notice it no longer gets the right pressure at idle.") What Mazda has done on the new gauge is design it such that it varies over the full length of the scale. At idle, it is almost completely at the left stop, at any rpm, it is almost at the right end. Result: even the dimmest customer gets used to it being all over the place all the time and does not bother the dealer. I think the medical community calls this "desensitization." ;) Leon SignatureLeon van Dommelen :) Bozo, the White 96 Sebring Miata .) rammm@dommelen.net http://www.dommelen.net/miata EXIT THE INTERSTATES (Jamie Jensen) > What Mazda has done on the new gauge is design it such that it varies > over the full length of the scale. Is it calibrated (with numbers)? SignatureLanny Chambers '94C, St. Louis http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html >> What Mazda has done on the new gauge is design it such that it varies >> over the full length of the scale. > >Is it calibrated (with numbers)? No. Leon SignatureLeon van Dommelen :) Bess, the Miata :) Bozo, the Miata :) rammm@dommelen.net http://www.dommelen.net/miata The only thing better than a white Miata is two white Miatas >>> What Mazda has done on the new gauge is design it such that it varies >>> over the full length of the scale. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Leon Strange. I sat right there in the driver's seat and never noticed that there were no calibrations beyond "L" and "H" and had to look at a picture on Mazda's website to make sure. I was just glad that the gauge was back and in the same location as on my '91. SignatureJohn McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com Well, obviously, Mazda decided not to take the high road but to at least exit the low road, these days we'll call that a success. My knock on Mazda, back in the day, when the NA had a good gauge, is that all they had to do to rectify the problem was to explain the workings of the gauge in the owners manual (it's full description / explanation in my 92 owners manual: "Oil Pressure Gauge"). Some people would look there and read and understand and the other 2/3's would have made that call but the dealerships could have easily said "there's a full description of the correct workings of the gauge in your owners manual" done! Albright, I'll jump down off the soapbox............ Glad it's sort of back, Chris 99BBB >>>> What Mazda has done on the new gauge is design it such that it varies >>>> over the full length of the scale. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > on Mazda's website to make sure. I was just glad that the gauge was back > and in the same location as on my '91. >Well, obviously, Mazda decided not to take the high road but to at least >exit the low road, these days we'll call that a success. > >My knock on Mazda, back in the day, when the NA had a good gauge, is that >all they had to do to rectify the problem was to explain the workings of the >gauge in the owners manual That might certainly help keep some of the 0.1% of owners who read a significant fraction of the 200-300 page (estimated) owners manual out of the dealers service dept and into more owner's manual reading. :) > (it's full description / explanation in my 92 >owners manual: "Oil Pressure Gauge"). Some people would look there and read >and understand and the other 2/3's would have made that call but the >dealerships could have easily said "there's a full description of the >correct workings of the gauge in your owners manual" done! For the dealer to say so, I would think the customer is already in the service department. And the user is not going to ask to be explained the gauge reading, but that he is here because the gauge does no longer read as high/low as it did earlier under the same conditions, "a big difference." Leon >Albright, I'll jump down off the soapbox............ > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> and in the same location as on my '91. > SignatureLeon van Dommelen :) Bess, the Miata :) Bozo, the Miata :) rammm@dommelen.net http://www.dommelen.net/miata The only thing better than a white Miata is two white Miatas |
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