Engine gets hot.....
 

alright, well when im in stop and go traffic my engine temp needle will go up a little over half way to the 3rd mark. then when im driving without stopping it goes back down. now this has never happened to me. i thought it was cause the engine gets hot while im stopped, but its never done this to me before. is this a problem i need to get checked out? or should i just let it go?? does this happen to anybody else?

maybe you should paint it a cool BLUE color again. lol j/k If I'm going around town, sometimes my car does the same... Doesn't get quite as high as yours though....

i thought this was gonna be a typical "my engine goes to the half way mark while driving" billy thread... :lol:

Mine does that in the summer. If it gets to the point where i start to worry, i just turn on air to "heat" and let that blast some heat off the engine. (just make sure the windows are open... i know if i didn't put that in there, you'd pass out from heat exhaustion)

^^ haha nice.....

lmao:lol::lol:

my needle just goes half way past where it usually is, not too high. but i just wanna make sure my baby is ok:rolleyes2:

Mine will jump around like that to, but it really depends on how hard youve been driving her.;)

me too....... i saw the partcial title of the thread and thought to myself "well no shit thats what happens when you run it."

but anyways....... ill give you a none ahoe response billy.

my car DID the exact same thing. its totally normal....... why doenst my car do this anymore? well when i took my needles off to instally my white face guages..... i moved the needle so that when it was fully warm it would be exactly at half way instead of 2/3.

basically i ran the car for along time and knew it was hot. i had the cluster plugged in but the needle off the cluster. so since i knew it would normally be reading 2/3...... i just lined the needle up at half way so it didnt annoy the piss outta me.

turning the a/c on will cool it down faster than turning the heat. a/c turns on the class II high speed fan IIRC.

Billy, are you in an area with a lot of bugs and debris flying around? If you are you might want to take a pressure washer and clean off the radiator, you might have some of the air flow blocked by dead bugs and such.

Stupid question, have you checked the coolant level lately????

Im kind messed up right now, but are you trying to say that my gauges arent lined up right??? cause i definitley lined them up exactly. and for the last year the gauge has never done this, its just starting to happen.

YES I KNEW IT, BUT I DIDNT WANT TO SAY THAT INCASE I WAS WRONG, CAUSE I DONT NEED ANOTHER THING FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE FUN OF ME about:lol::lol:;), BUT TURNS OUT I WAS RIGHT!!!:coolio:

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure:rolleyes2: :p

im dead serious dude!! hahaha, damn!!!! when i dont say it, turns out i was right, but when i do say something i usually say something stupid:lol::lol::lol:

That's what I was thinking :lol:

reading comprehension skills of a pet hampster... i swear... :lol:

brent was saying he purposely lined his own up wrong, so he didn't have to see it that high.

And mine only did it when i drove home in the summer, 150miles, then sat in traffic, in the sun, when it was like high 80s.... i expected it to move some...

yes i am in an area with a lot of bugs and debris. I will have to clean my radiator when i wash my car.

and yes, i have been checking the coolant level ever since i got my LIM fixed (i wanted to make sure it wasnt leaking).

check your coolant, clean your radiator, check to make sure none of the hoses are kinked and it's messing up the coolant flow, and if you are running a bunch of accessories at the same time that doesn't help.