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tulsaoilerfan
8/2/2006, 08:23 PM
For those of you with newer cars, what is the highest recent reading you've seen on your temperature gage? I think mine was 112 one day, yet the outside temp was only 104 or some crap like that; i think the weathermen are afraid to tell us how hot it really is outside. :hot:
royalfan5
8/2/2006, 08:28 PM
I had a 118. That proved that buying an all-black car inside and out was a dumb idea.
BeetDigger
8/2/2006, 08:37 PM
For those of you with newer cars, what is the highest recent reading you've seen on your temperature gage? I think mine was 112 one day, yet the outside temp was only 104 or some crap like that; i think the weathermen are afraid to tell us how hot it really is outside. :hot:


You may want to get that guage checked. I think that the thing is off a bit. :D
Blue
8/2/2006, 08:59 PM
121. In Death Valley a couple weeks ago. It was 5:00p.m., so I think it was over about 6 degrees.

Still pretty hot, though.
Cam
8/2/2006, 09:00 PM
When we lived in Phoenix, our would read in the 130's on a regular basis.
yermom
8/3/2006, 12:42 AM
i think the highest i have seen is 120?
SicEmBaylor
8/3/2006, 01:06 AM
This might be big, but I took mine the other day:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v313/SicEmBaylor/cartemp-1.jpg
yermom
8/3/2006, 01:14 AM
was the flower in your little vase wilting? ;)
SicEmBaylor
8/3/2006, 01:19 AM
was the flower in your little vase wilting? ;)

The vase itself was melting.
KABOOKIE
8/3/2006, 08:39 AM
I think the standard measure for outside temperature is in the shade. Sunlight actually distorts the reading on most thermometers and makes them indicate higher than actual temperature. I don't know maybe md would know.
TopDaugIn2000
8/3/2006, 08:41 AM
119 a couple of weeks ago

and I went on my bike ride that night!!!!! :eek:
mdklatt
8/3/2006, 08:45 AM
I think mine was 112 one day, yet the outside temp was only 104 or some crap like that; i think the weathermen are afraid to tell us how hot it really is outside.

There's a reason official temperature readings aren't taken from a thermometer attached to a metal object that's been left in the sun.

:cool:
OU4LIFE
8/3/2006, 09:23 AM
There's a reason official temperature readings aren't taken from a thermometer attached to a metal object that's been left in the sun.

:cool:

well, what is it?

tease.

that's like Bob coming out and saying "there's a reason that Bomar has been dismissed from the team" and then walking off.
OUDoc
8/3/2006, 09:23 AM
My wife's black car has been reading 120's until we get moving.
My 2004 car doesn't even have a thermometer. Or a compass. :(
mdklatt
8/3/2006, 10:07 AM
well, what is it?



Car thermometers measure the temperature of the car, not the air--especially when the car isn't moving.
slickdawg
8/3/2006, 10:08 AM
109 yesterday, but it really wasn't that bad to me. I don't miss the humidity at all. :D
Hamhock
8/3/2006, 10:10 AM
124

black on black parked in the sun.
Petro-Sooner
8/3/2006, 10:25 AM
121 a couple weeks ago.
Ike
8/3/2006, 11:09 AM
just 20 minutes ago, I saw mine get up to 72.



man, its getting hot here.
tulsaoilerfan
8/3/2006, 06:22 PM
Mine went from 100 to 76 in about 40 minutes, and it sure was enjoyable; got our first rain in about a month
Hamhock
8/10/2006, 02:53 PM
130 when i first got in. cooled down to 106