Stormhammer
05-22-2007, 03:56 PM
Alright, well its on my daily, the 1997 Nissan Maxima - I want to say its my thermostat, but its just weird
Alright, so your driving, the car is up to temp and the gauge is halfway - well you're at a light or stopped in traffic and the temp will rise about another 1/8 to slightly under the 3/4 mark, it varies - awhile back me and jahjah initially thought that one of the fans wasn't doing its job, but I checked, they're both running and are as loud as vacuum cleaners Laughing
So you get to moving once again and the temperature drops to 1/2 way again, and when I looked it had raised up, I looked again and it had dropped - so I decided to watch the gauge while driving ( do not attempt: professional driver ) - I noticed that as I was driving the temp would increase and then would drop down the 1/2 way, increase up and then drop back down to half way - and the top temp point seemed to typically be whatever the temp point you got to in traffic would be - so whats going on? Thermostat? I'm also going to change out the coolant ( heading to the autoparts store shortly regardless ) to see if that may help any
Alright, so your driving, the car is up to temp and the gauge is halfway - well you're at a light or stopped in traffic and the temp will rise about another 1/8 to slightly under the 3/4 mark, it varies - awhile back me and jahjah initially thought that one of the fans wasn't doing its job, but I checked, they're both running and are as loud as vacuum cleaners Laughing
So you get to moving once again and the temperature drops to 1/2 way again, and when I looked it had raised up, I looked again and it had dropped - so I decided to watch the gauge while driving ( do not attempt: professional driver ) - I noticed that as I was driving the temp would increase and then would drop down the 1/2 way, increase up and then drop back down to half way - and the top temp point seemed to typically be whatever the temp point you got to in traffic would be - so whats going on? Thermostat? I'm also going to change out the coolant ( heading to the autoparts store shortly regardless ) to see if that may help any