No temperature gauge as fitted by the Rover factory is worth the dashboard space it takes up! Get a "real" temp gauge!
The factory (and many other makes as well), figured that people may be alarmed by seeing a gauge fluctuating all the time, so their response was to have a gauge that reads "normal" over a large part of the operating range of the engine temps. Like about 45 Deg C, to 115 Deg C. By the time the gauge reacts to a coolant loss or other overheating event, the bulk of the damage is already done. EA and EB Falcons were much the same, apparently.
Many, many threads on here and other forums regarding this issue.
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