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another silly question from me. but were should the temp gauge read under normal driving conditions. its a 308 wagon, always starts at the lowest end of gauage - but after 10 15 minutes of driving its sitting above the bottom temp scale - not quite half way (but will get up about half way in traffic). is it normal? it never gets past half way even when air con on? old hq i had years ago, temp gauge always sat very low, only ever moved when stuck in traffic.
again sorry for quality of my questions.
cheers geoff
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Sounds about normal. What year / model is the car ?
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On the old girls, about one-third to half way on the gauge is normal.
The gauges are not calibrated in a linear manner so ¼ is not half the temp of ½ way on the gauge. There's only about 10 degrees (IIRC) between ¼ and ½ on the gauge.
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So how many degrees should normal operating temperature be? I've been told about 90 is right. Mine sits on 100, but it never goes below 40 even first thing in the morning (not using the sender unit that came with the gauge).
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Hi Scott,
Normal Operating Temp for pretty well ANY motor is 85 - 90 degrees.
If your gauge NEVER reads below 40 degrees, your sender is not matched to the gauge and the gauge will therefore be inaccurate. You need to either change the sender or gau
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Yeh Dave, just need to get my hands on the adapter to screw the sender into the manifold. I suppose it's not the smartest thing in the world to run a temperature gauge that isn't accurate. Having said that, better to use one that reads high than one that
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