quick question

Just a complete guess, as I've never seen the interior of an S80....

Being beside the temperature readout It might be an ice warning - my
850 has a little red light there which comes on when the temperature drops
below 3ºC.

Does that match up? Can't think why the symbol would be a sun, so I'm
likely wrong!

Cheers,

AJ

 

I have a 2002 S80. There is a light that comes on that looks like a sun.
It is red and is located beside the temperature indicator. I have looked in
my manual but can't seem to find out what it means. Any body know what it
means?

 

Maybe it's not a sun but a snowflake? ;-)

Pete

 

Gettin cold over there? Ice warning below 3C (37F). Goes off when
it's really cold.

 

........ Interestingly useless feature. What exactly is its purpose?

 

When the outside tempture drops to close to freezing the red snowflake light
will come on

 

Actually a very useful feature if you live where the road frequently ices.
It warns you when the temperature down near the road is approaching
freezing.

 

And Volvo made it red, a color that intuitively means cold

 

That's interesting - I did briefly wonder if they'd take account of that,
but decided they'd probably not bother going to the extra trouble. I've
not had my 850 throughout a winter yet but even so I doubt it'll get cold
enough here to observe this. -2ºC is the lowest so far!

Cheers,

AJ

 

.... and if wet becomes very slippery as it ices up. If you notice, the
freeze warning light goes out again a several degrees below freezing
when the ice on the road is solid enough that it is not as slippery.
Ice is most slippery when it is wet.

 

It is run from the "outside temperature gauge", the sensor for which I
believe is low down in the front bumper somewhere on the 850 at least.
Cars with ECC have extra temperature sensors in other positions in the
car, but I doubt they'd be used for the ice warning!

Cheers,

AJ

 

[AJ MacLeod] (Fri, 05 Dec 2003 08:51:01 +0000):

It does go out below -3 degrees C, -26 degrees C is the lowest so far
here, on the first drive home after I bought it..

BTW, the ECC does not work so well under those conditions, the front
window kept fogging up, had to set the fan from auto to manual ;D

 

Ohh I see, down by the road... Not exactly specified, I thought it was
rigged into the outside temperature gauge, and just warned if its getting
cold out.

Volvo and their endless safety features.... gotta love it.