It was so cold this morning that all of the dials on the BMW's dashboard were frozen. Yes, you heard me right - all of the dials on the dashboard were frozen. When I went outside at 7:30 to start the car and let the heater [attempt] to warm up, it was 8 degrees on our back porch. That's insanely cold for the Ohio Valley area. I came back out about 10 minutes later (yes, I know I my big 12 cylinder engine was just wasting gas, but at least it had warmed up), and when I was turing around in the driveway, something caught my eye - the gas gauge was on empty. I had just filled the 26-gallon tank up yesterday during lunch, so I knew that I had plenty of gas; even the 10 minutes of idling in the driveway couldn't have wasted an entire tank of gas. Then as I pulled out of the drive I looked at the spedometer - it was still on 0, as was the tachometer and every other dial that should have been registering something.
I didn't think too much more about it, and continued the drive to work. The car was running fine, so I didn't worry. Then after about 3 minutes of driving my normal speed, the gauges returned to where they normally should have been. I guess it was so cold that they just froze up. In that few minutes when everything was frozen and not moving, all I could think of was $$$$$ to get the problem fixed. I didn't have an anxiety attack, however; I just kept driving and drinking my morning coffee. But I breathed a huge sigh of relief when the dashboard went back to normal.
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