Car Voltmeter Installing in Peugeot 308

How useful is a voltmeter:

One of the very nice piece you can buy ..but nope .. i did not buy this. Just to make my page nice - I have to put on something neat. However I bought up something that is pretty small and cheap. Purposely chose red LCD version just to match the orange Peugeot 308 interior lighting.

But the big question is rather how do you use a voltmeter. Examine the gauge or readout on your voltmeter. After some checking and so forth here is how you should use it:

Although a battery is called a 12 volt battery, its voltage varies from about 12.6 volts down to

10 volts when it is discharging and can rise to 15 or 16 volts during charging. It is very
important, however, to limit the maximum battery voltage during charging otherwise the
battery will be damaged. The battery voltage should not exceed 13.8 volts for long periods
and 14.4 volts for short periods (8 hours maximum).

With the engine running and your alternator working correctly, you should see a reading of approximately 13.3-13.5 volts. Although the voltmeter cannot directly tell you good or bad battery however it provides you a monitoring on how your alternator is working and if you see anything less than 13.3v for a long time or constantly dropping - it is a tell tale sign that you should get your battery checked. So far during long drive, I will see the voltage going up to 13.6v meaning the alternator is doing its job.

In my hand, it is as big as this

Compared to the Peugeot 308s key

Fixed it in just beside the headlight height adjuster.

It looked something like this as a whole

What it looks like from the rear. Not bad eh!

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Air Intake Open Pod on Peugeot 308

Err .. i did not bought this .. merely to beautify my webpage.

Warranty is out, so the world is your oyster. One of the wanted things i longing to do was the air intake. Been living with the K&N drop in for 3 years now .. so its time to rip it out since warranty is out. Went to the BM 99 shop, look around and found the biggest mushroom i can find ... actually wanted to pay when i found that i dont have enough cash .. oh well plastic money will do...

Before start, i have to rip off the old organs .. yup .. the K&N drop in filter, the Resonator box and the divider .. definitely to section out for cold air.

Vital Organs

Then goes in the mushroom. I opt for the wire mesh type - the most freeflowing .. also least protection. Anyhow if i want more protection, i can just put a layer of Sponge to wrap around it ..

Bright blue mushroom, wire mesh. Taken the place for the resonator. Tied it around the hook of resonator as well.

A quick initial test drive ...reveals ... whoah .... you can literally fly ... muahaha ... nope. It is not that drastic but will certainly give you some grin. First off it is more free revving. It is like the Pug got its nose picked clean. You can literally rev your nuts off .. as i still use the original piping .. hence you get more roar but it is not ear deafening at all ..just slightly more than original. Other than that i dun find anything else negative and it is definitely here to stay. Since no more warranty .. i will just bring in to service with the mushroom on ...

 

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