Thread: Ultra gauge temperature reading

Originally Posted by PAT303

Never went higher than 96,but I averaged 20-25km/hr for most of it,sometimes I struggled to get over 15. Pat

Seriously,it's the only time in all my travels that I felt the bush had got the better of me.I was at a marker 32km's from Windy Corner at 2300hrs and thought it was fantastic I only had a short while before I stopped for the night,little was I aware it took me just over 2hrs to travel those 32k's,and when I did finally get there at 0120 it was still 29 degree's .That same day after about 5 minutes sleep and well south of Gary Junction I had a hissy fit for a moment and told the bush exactly what I thought of it,hell it was a hard trip. Pat

Hi,

I hope my query fits in with this thread (last post 5 years ago).

I’ve got a 2012 110 wagon (2.2) that I have had from new and its now got 114,000 km on the clock.
I bought an ultra gauge when I got the vehicle and the ultragauge has been plugged in for most of the life of the vehicle.

Originally I set the ultra gauge warning engine temperature to 96 degrees and very occasionally the alarm would go off if I had been lazy going up a reasonable hill in 6th gear.
Chopping down to 5th always sorted this out.

In the last couple of months the alarm has been going off at 96 degrees at 100 km/hr on the flat on cold days (intake temp ~10 degrees) on the motorway.

And then on the weekend the alarm was going off at 97 degrees at 100 km/hr on the flat on a cold day (intake temp ~10 degrees) on the motorway.

Now I know that 97 degrees is no where near being a problem but I am wondering if the radiator needs a really good flush out
or is this potentially a thermostating sticking problem?
or some other cooling system problem that is very gradually getting worse?

The coolant was changed 3 years ago.

Comments?

Thanks,

Kerry

Originally Posted by rgty_kmj

Hi,

I hope my query fits in with this thread (last post 5 years ago).

I’ve got a 2012 110 wagon (2.2) that I have had from new and its now got 114,000 km on the clock.
I bought an ultra gauge when I got the vehicle and the ultragauge has been plugged in for most of the life of the vehicle.

Originally I set the ultra gauge warning engine temperature to 96 degrees and very occasionally the alarm would go off if I had been lazy going up a reasonable hill in 6th gear.
Chopping down to 5th always sorted this out.

In the last couple of months the alarm has been going off at 96 degrees at 100 km/hr on the flat on cold days (intake temp ~10 degrees) on the motorway.

And then on the weekend the alarm was going off at 97 degrees at 100 km/hr on the flat on a cold day (intake temp ~10 degrees) on the motorway.

Now I know that 97 degrees is no where near being a problem but I am wondering if the radiator needs a really good flush out
or is this potentially a thermostating sticking problem?
or some other cooling system problem that is very gradually getting worse?

The coolant was changed 3 years ago.

Comments?

Thanks,

Kerry

I had the same thing, overheating on flat ground on cool temps or overheating in most benign situations. it was a sticky injector. I ignored it for too long and burned a hole in the piston. at 114k kms, it's about the marker to replace injectors. If its rough on cold start or smokey, another symptom of an injector. The Puma cooling system is, in my experience, very effective. Rarely does it get hot and when it does the temps come down quick. If the thermostat was sticking, i'd expect the symptoms to be across a range of driving conditions and the load on the engine on flat ground on a cool day is modest. Set your ultragauge to "load" to see how hard the engine is working while the symptoms present themselves.

Thanks for the tip on checking the load via the ultra gauge. I'll get the injectors looked too. Kerry