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Simon Isaacs
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Peterborough 4x4 Club http://www.peterborough4x4.co.uk
"Jon" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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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!
>
My Disco normally sits at 1/2 no matter how I drive it, but yesterday saw
fit to climb to the red while I was towing the GLASS trailer home as the guy
who does the shows lives 10 miles away, and also had to get his caravan
home...
After it cooled it then ran at about 3/4, without the heater on full to
remove as much heat from the system as possible! Having said that, the
GLASS trailer is bloody heavy, and I was only able to tow it at about 50 all
the way home, so I have a suspiscion that the brakes on it may require some
investigation. Performance was significantly down, more so than when the
hybrid gets towed on its trailer to events.
Once I dropped the trailer off, temperature dropped back to normal!
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Simon Isaacs
Peterborough 4x4 Club Vice Chairman, Newsletter Editor and Webmaster (how
much more....)
3.5V8 100" Hybrid, now LPG converted
Part owner of 1976 S3 LWT, currently under restoration
Suzuki SJ410 (Girlfriend's) 3" lift kit fitted, body
shell now restored and mounted on chassis, waiting on a windscreen and MOT
Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next
1993 200 TDi Discovery (the Pug 106 is dead, long live the Pug)
