Every protege has a hidden shift light

icantshift

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2002 Protege5 5spd
It's the wiper fluid light! Our cars have pretty much real-time updating wiper fluid dash lights. Today I noticed that if the fluid level gets low enough to trigger the sensor only during accelerations (when the acceleration force causes the fluid to rush to one side of the reservoir), you can have a fun little shift light. I had a lot of fun with this because it was triggering at about 4500rpm consistently through 1st and 2nd, gave me a good laugh. Has anyone else experienced this?
 
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