Someone backed into the front of your car gently, probably by mistake, causing no visible damage, but the ambient temperature sender behind the license plate was affected. Many owners relocate the new sender inside the engine compartment, behind the left headlight and splice the wire to the original one. P.
I've always had a childish fascination with the (amazingly accurate)
> instrument panel display of the outside temperature in my 1987 420
> SEL. Now it has mysteriously broken and will only register temps in
> the +80/+90 f range, although the actual temperature is +30/+50 f. >
> How does this thing work? Where is the outside thermometer/sensor
> located -- I cannot find it. What might cause it to register random
> temperatures like this? Is the fact that it is broken related to
> anything else in the panel display? Is this anything that an otherwise
> handy guy who is unfortunately an automotive doofus could repair? >
> I'm not about to pay to have someone repair it, but I am curious ...
> not to mention mildly disappointed that it is broken.
>
> Enquirin' minds want to know. TIA.