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: O/D OFF light


bisha
04-10-2004, 07:13 PM
Can anybody tell my whats the O/D Off lighy on the Element panel.
It cam on and after I turned it Off/On it went away.

brendan
04-10-2004, 07:38 PM
[quote:266dbd7bac=" "]Can anybody tell my whats the O/D Off lighy on the Element panel.
It cam on and after I turned it Off/On it went away.[/quote:266dbd7bac]

It's to let you know you've disabled the overdrive (that is, disabled 4th gear). You do so by hitting the toggle switch on the left side of the automatic switcher. Generally only useful to disable it (that is, to turn the light on) if you're towing something or heavily loaded, and you notice that your E is shifting between 3rd and 4th too much.

-brendan

music&dogs
04-11-2004, 08:31 AM
So THAT'S what that is :-)
An attendant took my car thru the car wash and when I got back in the car that O/D Off was lit up. I coudn't find anything in the manual about it. I was about to drive to the Honda dealer for enlightment, but when I turned the car off and on again, it went away. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

paulj
04-11-2004, 02:47 PM
manual, p 181

music&dogs
04-12-2004, 07:41 AM
Thank PaulJ. I was sitting in a parking lot, flipping through the manual in a tizzy, not knowing whether or not I should drive the car because I didn't know if this was some kind of warning light or not. I'll take a look for that page now.