Warming up nicely...not

[Bodger bedge]

Hi

I have a 1996 Cerb 4.2 and I am concerned that the temp guage only manages to get to about 60 degC even after a long run. Any ideas what it should stabalize at and if it should be higher, then what could prevent it getting hotter?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[mark.rowe]

Mine seams to be the same over winter, it only ever goes up to 80/95 when in very very bad traffic, but usualy never passes 60.

Last summer it was always around 80, don't know if its just due to the weather or if the thermostat is sticking?

[Byff]

As long as the car has always ran at that temp, then you have nothing to worry about. Mine sits around the 70 mark and rises to 95-100 when in stop start traffic. Drops back to 70 when back on the move.

Time to worry is when it does something out of character.

[Bodger bedge]

I have only had the car a few months so I am not yet familiar with it. I can only compair to other cars that I have had and they all seem to stabalize at 90 deg C and hold there regardless.

I will check the thermostat anyway...anyone know where it is?

I have also found a small temperature thermostat switch tie wrapped under the stearing wheel undercover on the far right hand side of the foot well. It has 2 wires connected and 2 wires just dangling. There is a copper tube coming out of the back of the switch and it goes into the engine bay...any ideas????

[t8rus]

the switch that you have found under the dash is for the air con adjustment.

[morebeanz]

Mine seems to stabilise around 80 once warm, and then goes up to 95-100 in traffic. I believe that the actual temperature that it stabilises to depends very much on the routing of the feed through the engine bay to the guage.