Hybridpower

I saw a b6 s4 that had been in a front end accident the other day, and both dash airbags had deployed. The stange thing was, all the gauges were stuck at the positions they were in before the accident! The speedometer said 28 miles per hour, and the gas guage said 3/4 of a tank. I thought it was weird, I worked at an auto school for a few years, and the students always brought in crashed cars to fix, but I don't remember the gauges staying in a fixed position. Anyone know why this would happen? My ex crashed a b5 once, and the gauges went down like the car was off. Weird? If you know why, please tell me, the curiosity is killing me!

audiguy82

honestly i have no idea either, in addition to my day job i'm actually attending an auto school 2 nights a week just for fun pretty much and to fill inthe gaps about specific stuff i don't know and have never seen any of the cars over there do that either and they are all 05 and newer vehicles, some of which have also been in a crash.

only thing i could think of is maybe its some kind of feature that freezes the gauges for reasons of knowing what speed and all the vehicle was doing when it got into an accident.. i know the GM vehicles actually save a type of black box log when the airbags are deployed for investigators to pull out

LoveV8

have monitors on the the car like a black box and benz keeps that information for them selves to see how their products act when they are crashed. They can also give this information the the police and goverment officals.. I just read thin in the manual to my New GL 450 i was bugging out

VerrÜckt

there is no spring to return them to zero. If you chop the power suddenly in the cluster, the needle can stick where it is.