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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 22:48:48 »

And just to reineforce what has been said by me and now Amba,  I have just been into town through a lot of heavy traffic, often stationary.

It is 21.5C outside with a/c on, and my temp gauge, which I do not normally closely monitor, but for the purposes of this thread I did, went to 97.5 / 98.  But everytime it went back to 95.5.

As I said before, nothing happens, it is all quite normal for a big engined Omega, as is the blast of hot air when you get out of your drivers door!

So I can't complain, with that outside temperature it doesn't go above 90°C (just before the middle), in the city it hardly reaches the electric fan zone (and mine jumps to 95). The heat thing when stopping reassures me too, the heat it leaves in the garage seemed excessive to me, but I see that it is normal 
Thank you for taking the trouble to check the temperature.

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 22:41:05 »

Agreed with all above.

My 3.2 normal sits at 92.5 to 95.0 on most days.When summer arrives and outside temp gets up into high 20,s to 30 it often goes up to 97.5 when pressing on especially up hills.

Its perfectly normal and given the temp gauges are notorious for being inaccurate I would not be at all concerned.

If it goes above 100 or into the red then worry but otherwise dont concern yourself

Mine normally goes below 90 measured by obd, by the needle of the box below the middle, when it marked 97 the needle was in the middle. So if it went up slightly above it would still go normal?

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 22:37:05 »

Some perspective. What's the outside temperature when you're doing this?

More than 30℃, almost 35℃ but I would say that it starts to happen after 30℃, in winter it has gone well. Maybe the A/C increases the problem

My previous post believed as you live in Spain, and in certain parts have had record breaking temperatures recently, you had experienced at least 30 degrees+.  My answer accounted for that, and certainly when I have run my 3+ litre Omega’s in outside temperatures of the same level at speed along motorways for long periods, my gauge also ran to over 95+ degrees.

So, personally, I would not worry about yours running at high temperatures.  As I said, our big engined Omega’s are always running hot, especially in hot weather, which you feel when you step out of the drivers door and the heat roasts your legs!

Si, 40°C son habituales por aqui, de ahi mi preocupacion al ver subir la temperatura a menos de 35. Cuando hablas de 95, te refieres a lectura obd o segun la aguja del cuadro?
He visto lo del radiador adicional, pero mi duda es, parece que es un radiador de aceite para la caja, pero las tomas salen del radiador de agua, seria usarlo de apoyo para agua?

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 14:20:41 »

I suppose if you’re going to flush do the heater at the same time👍

I'm sorry but I don't understand, what do you mean? Heater matrix?

               Just saying if your flushing the system do the heater radiator as well

Ah, ok, the matrix is new

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 12:31:34 »

If you put an pfl auto radiator in,using the in built cooler,will run about 5' cooler,  3.2 runs slightly warmer than 3.0L..

Blow the radiator fins out,from the back forward, if still warm change the thermostat, still runs warm, might be a blockage, check rad gets warm all over.

Well, I've already seen what you're saying on google, I've seen a radiator with some connections that will go to another auxiliary radiator, but I can't even see it in the GM part. Do all omega 3.0 automatic pfl carry it? How curious that they removed it

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 09:17:12 »

I suppose if you’re going to flush do the heater at the same time👍

I'm sorry but I don't understand, what do you mean? Heater matrix?

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 09:15:09 »

If you put an pfl auto radiator in,using the in built cooler,will run about 5' cooler,  3.2 runs slightly warmer than 3.0L..

Blow the radiator fins out,from the back forward, if still warm change the thermostat, still runs warm, might be a blockage, check rad gets warm all over.

Interesting, I guess it's for the oil, where does that radiator go? I have an omega 3.0 auto restyling located

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 09:12:03 »

Some perspective. What's the outside temperature when you're doing this?

More than 30℃, almost 35℃ but I would say that it starts to happen after 30℃, in winter it has gone well. Maybe the A/C increases the problem

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Omega General Help / Re: High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 05 July 2022, 09:09:35 »

I have always found the 3.2, and 3.0 before, always is a hot engine and in Summer weather can often get up close to being at the 95+ degree mark.

Never had any problem with that and always found the tempreture drops just as you think you are going to blow!

 

Well, the truth is that the needle was in the middle although it normally works in the lower line, if it wasn't for the obd that I saw 97℃ in theory it would be within normal, but I don't remember how it went in these conditions before riding the 3.2

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Omega General Help / High temperature on highway in summer

« on: 04 July 2022, 17:34:16 »

Well, it turns out that when taking the car out on the highway at more than 100km/h, now with the heat the temperature is rising little by little, it rose to 97°C, I stopped accelerating and the temperature dropped again. If I go 90-100 km/h the car runs fine. It does not pick up pressure or raise the level of coolant, so it seems that the cylinder heads are fine, the water pump I put new 3 years ago and about 25000kms. The radiator has been cleaned and the thermostat new. Could it be one of the cooling sensors? Do water pumps fail? Let's see what you think

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Omega General Help / Re: AC compressor

« on: 04 July 2022, 17:23:42 »

Surely the new compressor includes them, it came to me with the gaskets

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Omega General Help / Re: Shocks and springs recomendations

« on: 02 June 2022, 09:32:38 »

 

My post re ride height was in response to the question from Olm.

My original response to Danzigfan answered his question exactly as he asked it.

Next time I will try to remember to quote the post to which I have replied in order to not confuse or mislead the pedants 

Oh, sorry, my question was about the shock absorbers for sport chassis, in GM do they have a different reference, does the setting change?

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Omega General Help / Re: Shocks and springs recomendations

« on: 29 May 2022, 02:48:15 »

And for the sports chassis is there something out of origin or do they all have the same setting?

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Omega General Help / Temp dysplay say F

« on: 13 February 2022, 20:09:48 »

Hi, some time ago the temperature sensor started to show badly until it stayed at F. I changed the sensor but it's still the same, could it be the wiring? Any area prone to breakage? What you can see with the hood open is fine.

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General Car Chat / Re: No chance of fuel price coming down

« on: 28 January 2022, 09:35:29 »

RAC said we are being ripped off as it should be down 12p a litre by now

Correct, it is at prices of $140 a barrel as it was in 2014 but the reality is that it is below $90.
The same thing happens throughout Europe too, absurdly high prices for no reason. Well, if there is a reason, you should buy an electric

Crude oil hit a 12 month high today.

Yes, but very far from what I reached in 2014. If the barrel returned to $140, how much would you pay for fuel?