Temp gauge accuracy

Mine is really inaccurate. 2 tenths of a degree.That should be close enough for what we want to know.
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You still don't get it. Pour some boiling water in a coffee cup and measure the temp of the outside of the cup. This test equals what you have been doing under your hood.