Hello Scotty! I really enjoy your show and videos! I have a question about data on todays air conditioning systems in vehicles. Why is data, in particular specific pressures and temperatures, not readily availble for troubleshooting? I think this information ought to be available on the dashboard menu with the rest of the vehicles data like transmission temperature, oil pressure etc...? Data you can access without needing a redundant computer, code translator, analyzer, gizmo you plug into your adapter plug for your vehicle. They can easily do this. What are your thoughts?
Your fan,
Crump
It would cost money to provide that kind of information on the dashboard and most people would not know what to do with it.
well it seems important to YOU, but 99% of people would have no idea what to do with that information. They just care if it blows cold. If not, it goes to the mechanic. It costs money to develop stuff like that, and nobody wants to pay extra for it.
Where would you stop? Do you put exhaust temperature on the gauge? Intake temperature? oil temp, manifold pressure, ignition retard, .... pretty soon the car looks like a 747 cockpit.
No... these only matter when diagnosing problems. You don't need to know AC pressure to drive a car.
The trend these days is to replace gauges with idiot lights. On a lot of vehicles, the voltage gauge is gone, oil pressure gone, coolant temperature, ... Soon the only thing we'll have in the cluster is a speedometer and it will be a digital display.
Everybody has a diagnostic scanner these days because they come down in price so much.
