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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Dingleberry on 31 October 2008, 00:07:37

Title: Strange temp behaviour
Post by: Dingleberry on 31 October 2008, 00:07:37

Car in question is a 1998 2.5 V6 Elite

When i got the car the previous owner told me that it was running a bit warm, thermostat has been changed and the chances are the rad needed flushing. I got it home drove it about for a bit, it did lose some coolant over a week which i think may be the HBV, i topped it up and carried on driving it and the temp was sitting as shown in the piccy

(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a385/ayden17/DSC00152.jpg)


Now this seemed high to me, so i flushed the rad put some fresh coolant in, now when i drive it, it warms up within about 1/2 a mile gets about halfway then the gauge drops to 90 (thermostat opening?) then slowly clims back to around the halfway mark, it never overheats or goes near 100 the fans kick in between halfway and 100 and always take it down to under the halfway ? the heaters work brilliantly.

So am i being paranoid that there is something amiss  ?

Title: Re: Strange temp behaviour
Post by: kcl on 31 October 2008, 06:28:30

funny....the scale I mean. Have a look, it says 90 and 100, and there's several stripes in between... All scales I have seen have 80 degrees and 100 degrees... I would not worry, because your needle is quite in the middle of the range/scale of your meter...

Title: Re: Strange temp behaviour
Post by: LFF64 on 31 October 2008, 06:49:13

Thats about where mine sits too  :y although when the outside temp is low it will sit a fair bit lower too .

Title: Re: Strange temp behaviour
Post by: dbug on 31 October 2008, 08:36:55

95ºC normal for V6 in summer - mine runs at this and around 92ºC in brass monkey weather :y

Title: Re: Strange temp behaviour
Post by: Vmax on 31 October 2008, 09:06:40

Yup looks about the same as mine  :y