Very High Outside (extrenal) Temperature Reading

[Libertas]

I have the Sync 3 and the outside temp is at the top center of the home screen. My car is parked in a shaded garage. Temp inside the garage is in the 70s. 80 tops. Often, when I start my car the ext temp is displayed as more than 100 degrees. Sometimes 101, 102 - I've even seen 110. The intake temp also seem unusually high when this happens. After 20 minutes or so, it will randomly "kick on" and start reading a more accurate temp.

This is not a function of the car being parked on a hot tarmac.

Does anyone know where the temp senor is actually located?

Am I correct that the external temp and the intake temp are linked? They seem to move together.

Anyone else seeing this behavior?

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[BiloxiFun]

Nope. My car sits in a garage. We live in the deep south so 95+ weather is a regular thing here in the summer. The interior of my car in the garage is never that warm. I want to say in the low 70s and 80s until it gets pulled into the sun. Only time I have seen 110 in the car was when it sat out in the sun all day at work without the windows cracked.

Weird.

 

[StoplightWarrior]

My stang doesnt have that problem, but I've definitely owned other cars that do similar things to what youre describing. Car temperature readings seem to be an inexact science.

 

[WindveilNJ]

I have noticed the same thing. I was driving and it was certainly 90-92 outside. But the temp output was 102. It did drop eventually and I am not sure what got it rise. Today, the car read 80 and again it was in the low 90's. It does seem to be accurate more times than not.

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