Officially out of ideas.
 

Replaced my radiator, cap, hoses, coolant tank, thermostat, temp sender/sensor, and throttle body gasket. Car STILL overheats. Any ideas before I take it to a shop and they charge me 60$ just to look at it?

did you bleed the cooling system after changing all those things?

leaks?
loss of coolant?

why do you say it over heats?

Take that $60 and buy a OBDII reader that can monitor the ECU data stream, specifically the engine temps stream. (I use an el cheapo bluetooth/OBDII adapter, about $30 from Amazon.COM, and a $5 program named Torque on my Android phone.)

See what temps it IS running at.

I don't see water pump on your list ...

RwP

This.

Is the dash gauge broken?



:agree:

it doesn't matter if the gauge is physically broken, our temp gauge is notorious for reading wrong

Yeah, how hot is it getting?

This link you sent me was perfect, Whenever I drive it on freeway it falls below the middle mar pretty fast, Whenever it is at idle parked or in traffic the needle goes pretty close to the red, thats when I pull over and turn on the heater or anything.

When parked or driving slow or in traffic it goes almost to the red.

Sure did.

No leaks anywhere whatsoever.

Also I did notice the fans work but they never turn on really fast like they're supposed to, to cool it down. Could this be something? I checked the relays for the fans also and they're fine. and yes theyre all connected lol. Also now that I replaced my thermostat my car tends to heat up faster then it did before. Before it would heat to the 1/4 mark by the time I get to work, now It goes to middle mark by the time I get there. Good or bad?

Obligatory:

Can you run +12V directly to the cooling fans for comparison purposes?

Get a fan switch by casper on pfyc.com. This happened to my car also and this helped, but in the end I popped the gasket from faulty fluid level sensor.

How's the oil? Sounds like a HG to me. Are you losing coolant?

If not, I agree with water pump.

After all the money to spent, what's another $60

I dunno, I don't trust the accuracy of a gauge that goes "C ---> H" and that's it.

How cold is C, how hot is H, and at what reading IS the car actually overheating?

Better to pull the (more accurate) ECT reading off the ECU.

RwP