Is this temp OK?

[fred88]

Seeing the other thread on a low temp made me think. Is this gauge position ok or slightly low? It reaches this position reasonably quickly and doesn't go any higher, even after a 50 mile run. I must admit it looks slightly better in the photo than it does from my viewing position in the car!

Thanks for any thoughts.

[Derek.w]

Looks good nothing to worry about.

[fred88]

OK, thanks.

[Hybrid21]

That looks fine Roger 👍

[Trewithy]

I get the same reading,  never seen it any higher.

[fred88]

Ok, thanks all. I feel reassured. 

[AndrueC]

Reminds me of the time many (many, many) years ago when I was young and stupid (I'm not young any more) and I was driving back home along the M6.

I was driving an Austin Metro and somehow had ended up in the outside lane. I don't know how because frankly what the hell was I doing out there?

Anyway there was some kind of problem and the motorway came to grinding halt. Now it was a warm summer day and after a while I noticed the temperature gauge beginning to rise. When it got to what I felt was three quarters I began to worry. I put the heater on, full fan, opened the windows and crossed my fingers.

But the temperature gauge continued to rise. I began to have visions of a blown radiator and me further adding to everyone's woes in the outside lane. Oh! The embarrassment!

But the gauge continued to rise along with my anxiety. It eventually reached the bottom of the area marked in red.

There was a whoosh from under the bonnet as the fan kicked in and within a few seconds the gauge dropped back to normal.

The moral of this story is don't worry about it.

😄

Plus I hate the designer of that cooling system.

[Bernard Foy]

1 hour ago, AndrueC said:

Reminds me of the time many (many, many) years ago when I was young and stupid (I'm not young any more) and I was driving back home along the M6.

I was driving an Austin Metro and somehow had ended up in the outside lane. I don't know how because frankly what the hell was I doing out there?

Anyway there was some kind of problem and the motorway came to grinding halt. Now it was a warm summer day and after a while I noticed the temperature gauge beginning to rise. When it got to what I felt was three quarters I began to worry. I put the heater on, full fan, opened the windows and crossed my fingers.

But the temperature gauge continued to rise. I began to have visions of a blown radiator and me further adding to everyone's woes in the outside lane. Oh! The embarrassment!

But the gauge continued to rise along with my anxiety. It eventually reached the bottom of the area marked in red.

There was a whoosh from under the bonnet as the fan kicked in and within a few seconds the gauge dropped back to normal.

The moral of this story is don't worry about it.

😄

Plus I hate the designer of that cooling system.

Well ahead of their those cars, Last minute.com

[yossarian247]

As a teenager in the 80s I remember going somewhere on a boiling hot day with my dad in his mk3 Escort, when an orange warning light appeared on the dashboard. He pulled over, opened the bonnet, and we sat there at the side of a very busy A-road waiting for the engine to cool down. After a while I looked at the warning light and said 'Dad, that's the low washer fluid warning ' The look on his face was priceless. He just sheepishly got out, shut the bonnet, got back in and we drove off.

[Cyker]

The most impressive thing about that story to me is the car had a low washer fluid warning! I've never owned a car with a low washer fluid warning light!!

[yossarian247]

1 minute ago, Cyker said:

The most impressive thing about that story to me is the car had a low washer fluid warning! I've never owned a car with a low washer fluid warning light!!

Ford made a big thing of it in the early 80s. Only GL spec cars and above had it, and Ford very grandly referred to it as the 'Clean-Hands Warning System' 😆 It was basically just a row of 5 extra orange warning lights for fluid levels and brake pad wear which did a self-test routine when the ignition was switched on. My dad mistook the low washer fluid light for the low coolant (ironically the car didn't actually have an overheat warning light as such!)

 

 

[AndrueC]

7 hours ago, Cyker said:

The most impressive thing about that story to me is the car had a low washer fluid warning! I've never owned a car with a low washer fluid warning light!!

All my Nissans had them. None of the Hondas nor of course my current Corolla.

And for the record in case anyone was wondering none of my Metros did either 😉

[TonyHSD]

The older cars were posher, that’s a fact. I have seen an old Mitsubishi pajero JDM from 1994 with mechanical drivers seat memory settings, 3 different positions. Not to talk about the materials used for upholstery, door cards, seats, carpets , we can only dream off todays.
You get in many new cars and if you have a t shirt short sleeve and you use the hand rest you get scratches on you, or hit the door card and you will break your fingers 😂👌