fDoes your car temp gauge start to move once you drive?

[Twista]

Just wondering since mine is staying @ "C"... I havnet driven it for about 9 days (cold outside also) and i just started it up and was letting it idle and burn off some stuff.

Does your car temp gauge start to move once you drive?


*knock on wood!*

 

[Anubis]

yes

 

[iamwiz82]

It starts to move once it warms up. 😕

 

[skace]

Mine takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes to go from C to the middle.

 

[Twista]

so its normal for it to stay below "c" @ idle in cold weather? I cant drive her till 10:50 the earliest.


edit:

Originally posted by: skace
Mine takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes to go from C to the middle.

K, thanks for the information. I just changed out my thermostat and im just making sure.

 

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: skace
Mine takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes to go from C to the middle.

 

[djheater]

I replaced the original radiator with one for the DOHC version of my car which was substantially larger... now my temp guage only moves to the middle in +90 degree weather....

meh...

 

[Soapy Bones]

I had a lot of problems with mine staying cold during the winter and never really warming up. Thought it was the thermostat but never did anything with it because while it was annoying, I didnt feel like spending the money. So this summer it started getting up to the maximum temp. limit way too fast so I finally took it in and got the thermostat changed out, which is what the problem was. Now it seems to be much better, gets up to that mid range and just holds there as I drive even on the highway. Hopefully it will allow my car to warm up during the winter so I can have some heat in there!

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: djheater
I replaced the original radiator with one for the DOHC version of my car which was substantially larger... now my temp guage only moves to the middle in +90 degree weather....

meh...

What degree thermostat did you get? I belive the guy @ pepboys gave me 195F/90C for chicago.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Depends on the car. The 951 warms up in under 5 minutes. The Mark VIII takes about 10.

195 degree thermostat is stock for most cars. Going colder will just make the ECU think the engine's too cold and run a rich mixture. A 180 degree thermostat would be acceptable if you lived in Phoenix, AZ or somthing where you saw 120+ temps outside in the summer (though my Mark VIII did just fine with the stock 195 degree thermostat in AZ with 122 degree outside temps at 80 mph with the A/C running). A 160 degree thermostat will leave the engine stuck in "cold start" mode unless you've done a _lot_ of work to it and it's making huge amounts of power.

ZV

 

[Kelemvor]

It goes up faster if you're actually driving than if you're just sitting there. And it's a temperature gauge so the colder it is, the longer it takes to get to a temperature that the thermometer recognizes. Mine visibily starts moving after a minute or two.

 

[Twista]

=) I drove it and it went to "normal" (the middle) and remained there the whole time..

thanks guys/gals.

 

[Joemonkey]

I think mine's busted, it's a 50/50 shot over whether it moves at all during my 1 hour commute

 

[Rubycon]

Typically everything in the car starts to move once you drive.

If not it's safe to say your car is falling apart!

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
A 160 degree thermostat will leave the engine stuck in "cold start" mode unless you've done a _lot_ of work to it and it's making huge amounts of power.

ZV

This is true however a bridge inline with the sender to add 40 degrees would take care of that. Why anyone would want to do this anyways?

 

[sswingle]

Mine shows actual temps, bottoms out at 100 though, so it only moves once temp is higher than that. Of course, it reaches 100 fairly quickly.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: C6FT7

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
A 160 degree thermostat will leave the engine stuck in "cold start" mode unless you've done a _lot_ of work to it and it's making huge amounts of power.

ZV

This is true however a bridge inline with the sender to add 40 degrees would take care of that. Why anyone would want to do this anyways?

A lot of very high-strung and only just barely streetable muscle cars and SCCA cars do that because the their engines make a lot of heat.

It's never necessary for a car that's driven only on the street though.

ZV

 

[PurdueRy]

You do realise that they program those things so they read in the safe area unless something is seriously wrong...

They don't want Mrs. Soccer mom freaking out just because it is an 1/8th an inch away from the red

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
You do realise that they program those things so they read in the safe area unless something is seriously wrong...

They don't want Mrs. Soccer mom freaking out just because it is an 1/8th an inch away from the red

Retard scales fix this problem.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: C6FT7

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
You do realise that they program those things so they read in the safe area unless something is seriously wrong...

They don't want Mrs. Soccer mom freaking out just because it is an 1/8th an inch away from the red

Retard scales fix this problem.

Yeah all they do is make it point to what people want to see unless something is really wrong. My father was out in Arizona at Chrysler's test track testing the hydraulic fan in the Viper his company designed and they asked him how he wanted the temp. gauge to read...he was confused until he found this out...