Gauges - where the needles should sit!

[Rusty]

yup, mine concur with yours Andy...except for the running water temperature where mine would sit lower, never sure if its the stat or the mtfs but having changed both a couple of times they still manage to display broadly the same 70-80 at motorway speed and rise to normal limits at slower speeds or standing in traffic.

This shouldn't happen. It should stay above 80deg in all but the most extreme conditions. Mine was like this when I had a small leak, I thought it wsa the stat but that was really new (<2k miles).

[rj scotty]

wheres the oil stat located ?

[s2driveruk]

yup, mine concur with yours Andy...except for the running water temperature where mine would sit lower, never sure if its the stat or the mtfs but having changed both a couple of times they still manage to display broadly the same 70-80 at motorway speed and rise to normal limits at slower speeds or standing in traffic.

[Rusty]

Oil thermostat stuck open is defo the cause of that!

Is it an 87 deg stat? When mine was leaking it would get cold when driving, thought it was stat but all good now, even in this weather.

[rj scotty]

I can't get my warter temp to go that high even with a known good stat.

[YELL MAN]

Interesting! My oil temp sits at just above the 60 degree mark when driving sensible and would only ever get as high as yours when driving very spiritedly

Although i will have to get around to changing my thermostat as i am positive it is stuck open and that can't help.

[Rusty]

Here's the temp gauge at fan kick-in.

[Rusty]

There are many questions posted about the gauges, especially the oil pressure gauge and I'm sure that there are many individual threads on each gauge so I thought that having just taken the car out for a winter warmer, I'd take a few pics...

The oil pressure gauge has to be viewed from head on to get the position as the pics show. You can see from the other angles that it's not where it should be. What a rubish design (as we all know)!

Interestingly, I've notived that if your cooling system isn't in good order, i.e. there's a leak then the temperature gauge can hit 90+2 grads or even +3 before fan kick in but with it sealed it only reaches 90+1 grad. I was chasing this for ages and it was my after run pump leaking (that then blew up in my face as some will remember!).

Will take a pic of the running water temp (90 - 1 to 2 grads) when it's not sat, cooler than this and it's either REALLY cold or your thermostat is knackered!

I could try and get the oil temp up to 130... maybe not! I've seen 130 / +1 grad on track and the water gauge at about 90 + 8 / 9 that was with a weak HG!

Please add any more pics / links / threads to this one. Might be a good sticky?

I've got:-

Oil temperature gauge head on.
Oil pressure gauge at idle (15W50 oil)
Oil pressure gauge at higher RPM