TD5 not warming up

My 110 TD5 warms up to about 1/3 on the temperatur guage and doest go any thurther, not much heat from the heater, can the thermostat get stuck open?
I tried undoing the bleed srew and idling for a while but this didnt seem to do anything other than loose some coolant.
any ideas? or am I being a muppet

Mine runs about a third up....not sure if its normal or not.

Its normal.

The temp gauge is not analogue its controlled by the ECU and reads about 1/3 for a varying range of temps. Its why the gauge stays reading cold and then seems to shoot up.

TD5 engines tend to run cold anyway.

ok thanks,
I'll stop worrying about it now

IMO, it must rise to half of the gauge after a while, when the thermostat opens... unless it's stuck opened as you well presumed...you better put a new thermostat just to make sure...the stat must be closed at the beginning to keep the coolant flow just in the heater matrix especially for interior confort, it must start to open at 86*C so if it's not stuck opened you must feel warm in the cabin

I was going to flush the system and refresh the coolant so I'll replace the thermostat at the same time.

My 2000 td5 temp rises fairly swiftly to a nadge left of centre and stays there come hell or high water - other than -3 sat in traffic w heater full on when it drops to about 1/3, or when it dropped off the blue when it emptied and cracked the cylinder head (or vice versa) 2 years ago.....

Sounds like stat open to me, but more expert folk will be along I'm sure. Reckon your flush and stat swap will fix it. A

I'll report back when I've done it (after the snow)
is it obviouse which way round the pipes go? just in case they are wrong and I copy them!

ok,
replaced the thermostat and anti freeze and it warms up nicely now, almost to the half way mark.
Heater working much better now too.
bit of a bugger getting the pipes back onto the new thermostat, resorted to jubilee clips rather than the pipe clips that were there.

I have taken the fan off our TD5 discovery for the winter to help warm up - no problems even towing the horse trailer up steep long inclines.....