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- Brad
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- St. Louis, MO
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- 2023 Ford Maverick XL
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A few months ago I was at my friendly big box store and passed by the section with the temperature and weather instruments they have for homes. Was looking at them and got an idea. I bought their cheapest package, made by LaCrosse, which has a small display unit to show indoor and outdoor temperatures, and a battery-powered remote sensor unit for reading the outside temperature. Normally you'd keep the display in your house somewhere, and put the remote unit out in the yard. After I got home I put the external sensor in my "tool tub" (cheapo plastic container with a few basic tools) in my Mav's bed; then the display unit fit nicely in the cell phone holder in the center console.
The top number is the "outside" temperature, i.e. temperature in the bed. The bottom number is the "indoor" temperature, or in this case the temperature in the passenger compartment. For reference my Mav is Cactus Gray; and the bed has Line-X SIBL plus a MostPlus hard trifold cover (in black).
The information I'm getting from this has proven to be much more interesting than I initially thought it would be. During our blazing hot summer in Missouri, bed temps would usually get up to about 120 degrees or so, while the cabin was usually up to about 110-115 degrees. Now the picture above is a weird aberration; the truck was sitting at my church parking lot one afternoon, and the bed "only" got up to 109.6, while the cabin was 121.3 degrees. This past week, with the cool-down in the Midwest temps on both have been showing in the 70+ degree range.
Anyway, I'm finding this to be pretty useful and it wasn't expensive, I think maybe $30 or so for the unit if I remember right. Like all the old PSA ads used to say, don't leave your pets or kids (or adults, lol) unattended in a hot car! But also, it's made me realize how hot the bed can get, and to consider that for any stuff I put back there.
The top number is the "outside" temperature, i.e. temperature in the bed. The bottom number is the "indoor" temperature, or in this case the temperature in the passenger compartment. For reference my Mav is Cactus Gray; and the bed has Line-X SIBL plus a MostPlus hard trifold cover (in black).
The information I'm getting from this has proven to be much more interesting than I initially thought it would be. During our blazing hot summer in Missouri, bed temps would usually get up to about 120 degrees or so, while the cabin was usually up to about 110-115 degrees. Now the picture above is a weird aberration; the truck was sitting at my church parking lot one afternoon, and the bed "only" got up to 109.6, while the cabin was 121.3 degrees. This past week, with the cool-down in the Midwest temps on both have been showing in the 70+ degree range.
Anyway, I'm finding this to be pretty useful and it wasn't expensive, I think maybe $30 or so for the unit if I remember right. Like all the old PSA ads used to say, don't leave your pets or kids (or adults, lol) unattended in a hot car! But also, it's made me realize how hot the bed can get, and to consider that for any stuff I put back there.
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