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Old 02-07-09, 09:35 AM
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Where Can I pruchase the outside temp sensor? Besides the stealership.
Sorry, My wife's truck is a 99-RX300
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Old 02-07-09, 10:16 AM
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Welcome to the Club.

www.rockauto.com

It's called an Ambient Air Temperature Sensor listed under Heat & Air Conditioning once you find your vehicle and it's under $20 USD.

This is the location.
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One other place, http://www.trademotion.com/partlocat...&siteid=214915 under $15 USD (actually for both places)
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Thank you, Kindly! It also looks like her truck will be in need of the old heater servo work. I'll wait for warmer weather.
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Originally Posted by Blackxfire
Where Can I pruchase the outside temp sensor? Besides the stealership.
Sorry, My wife's truck is a 99-RX300
Stan
Not to sound like a dummy,but how do you know it`s bad? Is it just not registering anything?
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I am not sure in his particular case, but I knew there was an issue with mine because every time I'd turn on the a/c (this goes back many years ago) it go full blast on AUTO. Turns out that when we had painted the lower panels and bumpers black to match the rest of the vehicle we forgot to tape up this sensor (we had put paper in front of the radiator) and I had to use some thinner to clean it off.
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