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I woke up newyears day to find the temp was minus 32 degrees F where I was, in Palisade minnesocold, that is actual temp, not wind chill!:rolleyes: I was able to get my ranger started with help from another vehicle and jumper cables:rolleyes: and noticed my scanguage had no readable display, must have got too cold for it!:( I thought it was frozen toast, but once it warmed up in the cab, it started to work again!:Banane06: but it somehow got reset to default!:eyebrow: Oh well, at least I wrote down all the settings on a paper just in case!:p Now, if I could only find where I put that paper!:o

Michael, it probably lost power in the cold -- that's why it reset. I've had that happen in my Elantra when I let the 12V get too low a few times.

Hi Sean, did you and your family have a good holiday?

Re: SG ,Thats odd, it doesnt lose settings when i unplug it, why would a low battery be any different.

It was good -- certainly warmer than what you experienced!!! :eek: (We stayed in the "warm" Cities)

I don't know why it would be different other than possibly trying to start the car on low battery? Perhaps that caused enough of a voltage spike to get the SG to try to wake up, then lose its settings. I didn't try disconnecting before starting because I didn't know the battery was dead. :rolleyes:

I still think it was the extreme cold that did it. I have had a discharged battery before and it didn't do it.

glad you stayed warm for the holidays ;)

I had a similar thing happen to mine last year when we were below -30F. Mine just failed to display until it wamed up to -28F or so, it didn't lose settings. I thought maybe I was outside the temp specs for the LCD.

Mine has always seemed to display something and I am fairly certain it's been used when the temperature was below -30F. When it's cold, mine must operates extremely slowly until the display warms up.