Cars motor broken Why ?

[HappyKool 0]

I played quietly in the private servers when some offer ready-to-use cars with radiators, spark plugs, gasoline sometimes the lights etc... the problem I encounter is that some use has not even happened 10 seconds the engine turns orange then red and the car stops while I pass the gears without reaching the rpm limit etc. Why does this happen? Is it a bug, or other things. thanks in advance

Edited February 15, 2022 by HappyKool
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[lemmac 102]

23 hours ago, HappyKool said:

I played quietly in the private servers when some offer ready-to-use cars with radiators, spark plugs, gasoline sometimes the lights etc... the problem I encounter is that some use has not even happened 10 seconds the engine turns orange then red and the car stops while I pass the gears without reaching the rpm limit etc. Why does this happen? Is it a bug, or other things. thanks in advance

You need to put water in the radiator. The car may show the water level as full in a normal world, but this is dayz world and as such most vehicles have this dial backwards. If the needle is pointing right the radiator is empty, pointing left and it is full. You need to be at least half full of water to not damage the engine.

The gasoline dial works correctly (right full, left empty).

 

[Derleth 1357]

43 minutes ago, lemmac said:

You need to put water in the radiator. The car may show the water level as full in a normal world, but this is dayz world and as such most vehicles have this dial backwards. If the needle is pointing right the radiator is empty, pointing left and it is full. You need to be at least half full of water to not damage the engine.

The gasoline dial works correctly (right full, left empty).

 

That's because the temperature meter is not supposed to be a water level gauge, it is supposed to be a temperature indicator. However because of reasons DayZ it doesn't actually show the temperature of the engine but does indeed work as an inverted water level gauge. So no water = max temperature and baaad for the motor, max water = lowest temp which in a real world scenario would only be when the car is just started up, then the meter would rise to around half way which is the normal working temp of an engine. If it climbs higher the cooling is not working for some reason, either because of lack of coolant or something else.

There was a brief patch when the temp meter actually worked like this, but it was reverted to the inverted water level thing, presumably because it wasn't very reliable. It's a shame really, but anyway the reason the meter is inverted is because it is supposed to show temperature.

Edited February 16, 2022 by Derleth

[lemmac 102]

Yep that sounds about right for Dayz lol. A game where you have to peel a potato before you can bake it, can die of thirst in a rainstorm, chopped down trees fall with their roots intact, mindless infected instantly know all alternate entrances into the building you shut yourself in but only if they are open and an armband made from a waterproof raincoat becomes drenched in the rain... so it's to be expected😉