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Old 06-28-2016, 07:57 PM   #1 (permalink)
spacemanspif
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The New Focus - '07 Ford Focus ZX5
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Engine load at idle

Mrs. Spif's 08 Impala 3.5 v6 seems to be running the cooling fan quite frequently recently. The car has pretty much no good spot to mount my spare scangauge so I bought a Bluetooth dongle, dug her old android out of the drawer and downloaded the free version of torque to monitor data while I'm with her in the car. While I'm not super happy about it running around 200-205 almost all the time, I'm more intrigued by the load gauge reading in the 20s while at idle in drive AND park. I was shocked by this so switched my scangauge in the the Focus to read load...and it reads similar at idle on my commute today.

What are your cars idling at? I feel like 20s is high for load with lights and AC off but I'm basing that on no knowledge at all.

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2007 Ford Focus ZX5 - 91k - SGII, pending upper and lower grill bocks - auto trans
1987 Monte Carlo SS - 5.3/4L80E swap - 13.67 @ 106
2007 Ford Focus Estate - 230k - 33mpg - Retired 4/2018
1995 Saturn SL2 - 256K miles - 44mpg - Retired 9/2014

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