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Old Jul 17, 2013 | 10:20 AM
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Personally, I'm offended by the term good gravy.

Well, I'm personally offended by people who are personally offended by people who don't write exactly as to their standards.

Wait.... gotta be something wrong there. I'm sure the language ***** will be along shortly to chastise me appropriately.
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Originally Posted by calvins
Well, I'm personally offended by people who are personally offended by people who don't write exactly as to their standards.

Wait.... gotta be something wrong there. I'm sure the language ***** will be along shortly to chastise me appropriately.
I spent a good portion of my life in law enforcement and over the years I've had to deal with brown gravy, white gravy, greasy gravy, runny gravy, lumpy gravy, sausage gravy, beef gravy, etc., etc. I guess I'm a little jaded and overly sensitive to that term.
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Old Jul 17, 2013 | 04:22 PM
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Originally Posted by DevilDog II
I spent a good portion of my life in law enforcement and over the years I've had to deal with brown gravy, white gravy, greasy gravy, runny gravy, lumpy gravy, sausage gravy, beef gravy, etc., etc. I guess I'm a little jaded and overly sensitive to that term.
Sorry, quoting error. I wasn't referring to your post. It was in response to o2b's.

Edit: Fixed grammer

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Originally Posted by calvins
Sorry, I forgot to quote. I wasn't referring to your post. It was in response to o2b's.
You're forgiven.
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Old Jul 17, 2013 | 05:12 PM
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Old Jul 17, 2013 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by DevilDog II
I spent a good portion of my life in law enforcement and over the years I've had to deal with brown gravy, white gravy, greasy gravy, runny gravy, lumpy gravy, sausage gravy, beef gravy, etc., etc. I guess I'm a little jaded and overly sensitive to that term.
yes but is your spaghetti gravy red or not?
here in Philly we call spaghetti sauce , gravy. Nothing better than a sausage, pepper and egg sandwich with gravy, ( red spaghetti gravy. ON a nice Buono Brothers roll
or a meatball sandwich with gravy ( red gravy ) Don't forget the Provolone.

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Old Jul 17, 2013 | 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by tcomann
All lights come on my dash. BUT when you look at the DASH IF you can see that far, it will show the mileage also and none of the DIC lights come on also. SO for you older guys who know everything what is the cause
I can't tell if the question is a joke, or if there is a real question somewhere in that scramble. I'm old and know everything, but I can't tell you because I don't understand what you're asking. Read over your question and see if you can make it clear what doesn't work and try again. There are many old folks here who would be happy to help if they only knew what help you need.

Exactly what "light" are you expecting to see and at when do you expect to see it? State it calmly without sarcasm if you are serious about wanting to know what causes whatever you are seeing or not seeing.
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Originally Posted by Evil-Twin
yes but is your spaghetti gravy red or not?
here in Philly we call spaghetti sauce , gravy. Nothing better than a sausage, pepper and egg sandwich with gravy, ( red spaghetti gravy. ON a nice Buono Brothers roll
or a meatball sandwich with gravy ( red gravy ) Don't forget the Provolone.

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Thanks for making me hungry.
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Old Jul 17, 2013 | 10:43 PM
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I guess I'm to old for this. I still can't figure out what the problem is no matter how I try to decipher the OP's explanation. I'm pretty good at pig latin, though.
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Old Jul 18, 2013 | 07:31 AM
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I'm pretty good at pig latin, though.
I guess we're both getting old because that's the only foreign language I speak.
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Old Jul 18, 2013 | 07:34 AM
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Ok Thanks for the help. I have been getting some strange electric items. Like 1 day a check engine then it was gone. I had a check rear driver side tire alarm then it was gone. I have replaced the driver side running light 3 times in last year. Now the DIC lights don't work at all. When it cools off I guess I will go through every ground connection and clean them. Sorry if I offended anybody, but I am a smart A$$ always have been and always will be
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Old Jul 18, 2013 | 09:57 AM
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The likely problem with your daytime running light is a melted housing above the bulb. The plastic melts and allows water to enter and when it touches the bulb, it pops. You will have to remove the housing and either seal the melted hole, or replace the housing. Some have used silicone to seal the hole with success.
I can't help with the DIC, but checking the grounds and the battery charge state would be good starts I'd think.
One possibility with the tire warning is that the pressure dropped below 25lbs and when you drove the pressure rose enough to turn off. Make sure you have 30 lbs in all four tires using a gauge.
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Old Jul 18, 2013 | 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by o2bnkc
While I'm on it, don't schools teach kids how to structure a basic sentence anymore? Good gravy!
I offense take to that.
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Old Jul 18, 2013 | 10:09 AM
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Seriously though. My mileage Light be comings on like normal. I thinking your cars problem might be up on that Electrical system or something's. maybes try and pull out some codes or something's from UR DiC and let us all know what be goings on with your car Please.
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Seriously though. My mileage Light be comings on like normal. I thinking your cars problem might be up on that Electrical system or something's. maybes try and pull out some codes or something's from UR DiC and let us all know what be goings on with your car Please.
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Originally Posted by tcomann
Ok Thanks for the help. I have been getting some strange electric items. Like 1 day a check engine then it was gone. I had a check rear driver side tire alarm then it was gone. I have replaced the driver side running light 3 times in last year. Now the DIC lights don't work at all. When it cools off I guess I will go through every ground connection and clean them. Sorry if I offended anybody, but I am a smart A$$ always have been and always will be
I can tell you're going to fit in good here.
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Old Jul 18, 2013 | 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Black 02
Seriously though. My mileage Light be comings on like normal. I thinking your cars problem might be up on that Electrical system or something's. maybes try and pull out some codes or something's from UR DiC and let us all know what be goings on with your car Please.
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Originally Posted by 3sACROWD
Your description still isn't very clear BUT I think what you are saying is that all of the dash lights seem to work when you turn the key on with the exception of the DIC display.

So, we start with the easy things first.

1) With the key on, try depressing any of the DIC buttons to see if you get the DIC to display some information. (You can have the DIC set to display nothing so this is why I suggest this step first.)
1.5) Make sure the instrument dimmer **** didn't get turned all the way down by the ham-fist cleaning the interior. It will make you think Bad Things have happened.
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Old Jul 19, 2013 | 07:18 AM
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Thanks for replies. I will get my wife to pull out the running light out and look at it. It is too Hot for me to do that, but she wont mind.
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