Drove down to Longleat Safari Park place on the Bank Holiday and the temp barely lifted on the way down. Once we started to queue up around Bath the needle crept up and sat around 90, no further. Soon as we were moving again, it drops back down to being barely off the stop again.
Once inside the Safari Park we began to creep round, moving only a few feet every few minutes as we stared out at the animals. The temp. gauge crept up to not far off 100, but no further. No steam, no lights, no drama at all. End of the day we drove off and it dropped back down to being barely off the needle stop again.
Nothing 'seems' to be wrong, but most the cars I've had in the past put the temp. gauge would have the needle rise to around the middle of the range of the gauge and stay there with little deviation. I had an MR2 that no matter how hard you drove it would barely budge once it had warmed up to that middle spot.
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...I was in stitches driving around in the Monkey enclosure at the Safari Park. I suggest anyone with a Renault Megane thinks twice about going - the little sods appear to have the Haynes Manual. They quite casually stripped the roof strips off a Megane in front of me, and the Nissan Micra behind me was worse for wear when it finally rolled out the gates.
Not sure what was funnier - the way the monkeys were stripping cars as they went through or the expression on the faces of the drivers who watched their car be reduced to parts.
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Topic: 2.5TD - Running Temp. - Thermostat? (Read 1488 times)