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Derry Argue
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Jon <[email protected]> wrote in
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[email protected]:
> Out of interest how hot does your 200TDi run when running
> at 70mph, i.e. Motorway driving?
>
> Mine is a 1992 90 hard top, stock 200TDi with 235x85 BFG AT
> rubbers. On flatish ground it will happily trundle along at
> 70 - 75mph (80mph on a Long road) BUT the temperature
> needle rises from vertical (normal running temp) and seems
> to stop at the end of the white bit, importantly before it
> gets to the red!
>
> Question is - IS this normal or is my radiator efficiancy
> begining to fall (some of the vains are missing or have
> flies lodged in them!)? Could it be anything else? Do
> radiators silt up inside over time, requiring a wash out?
>
> On a similar note, I am thinking of a bigger intercooler
> (Alisport / twisted performance type) that will sit in
> front of the radiator but will this inhibit the radiators
> performance further???
>
> By the way i live and drive in the UK, not somewhere hot
> like Greece!
>
> Any thoughts / comments appreciated.
>
> Jon
>
Did anyone suggest that it may just be your gauge that is not
indicating correctly?
There used to be a temperature gauge on the old Peugeot 504
trucks. Then Peugeot removed them on the later models!
My guru at Arnold Clark (Ian at Inverness) said they took it out
because owners got unduly concerned when it recorded an
inaccurate high reading!
Just a thought. If your 200Tdi over heats, there would surely be
steam issuing from an expansion valve somewhere?? Or coolant
loss (head gasket)??
Derry
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[email protected]:> Out of interest how hot does your 200TDi run when running
> at 70mph, i.e. Motorway driving?
>
> Mine is a 1992 90 hard top, stock 200TDi with 235x85 BFG AT
> rubbers. On flatish ground it will happily trundle along at
> 70 - 75mph (80mph on a Long road) BUT the temperature
> needle rises from vertical (normal running temp) and seems
> to stop at the end of the white bit, importantly before it
> gets to the red!
>
> Question is - IS this normal or is my radiator efficiancy
> begining to fall (some of the vains are missing or have
> flies lodged in them!)? Could it be anything else? Do
> radiators silt up inside over time, requiring a wash out?
>
> On a similar note, I am thinking of a bigger intercooler
> (Alisport / twisted performance type) that will sit in
> front of the radiator but will this inhibit the radiators
> performance further???
>
> By the way i live and drive in the UK, not somewhere hot
> like Greece!
>
> Any thoughts / comments appreciated.
>
> Jon
>
Did anyone suggest that it may just be your gauge that is not
indicating correctly?
There used to be a temperature gauge on the old Peugeot 504
trucks. Then Peugeot removed them on the later models!
My guru at Arnold Clark (Ian at Inverness) said they took it out
because owners got unduly concerned when it recorded an
inaccurate high reading!
Just a thought. If your 200Tdi over heats, there would surely be
steam issuing from an expansion valve somewhere?? Or coolant
loss (head gasket)??
Derry
