How far should a car thermostat go before it is unsafe?
Posted February 28th, 2009 by admin 5 Comments »
My car recently started overheating and acting funny so I took it in and was told I needed to replace my thermostat and get my radiator flushed. I did both. The car has not overheated since then, but the thermostat on the dashboard goes up pretty high. It hasn’t gone all the way to top to over heat, but it has been pretty close. It seems to go down when I go faster, but if I slow down at lights and such it creeps up high. I don’t honestly know if I my car did this before and I am just being paranoid because I never paid any attention to it before.
Am I being paranoid? How high can the temperature gauge in the dashboard go before I should be worried? I am supposed to be driving a 6 hour trip this weekend (one way) and I don’t want to get stranded. I am also moving cross country next month and would like to know if this is going to affect me. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The mechanic gave me a list of things to fix in my car which included the water pump and hoses and such but he only did that because my car is almost at the 100,000 mile mark. I felt that if there was anything wrong with my car he definitely would have told me because he would have gotten more money.
The thing is that there is definitely an improvement from before I took it to the car shop.
The temperature gauge always goes down when I speed up. Can this indicate anything? Is any of this things that I can do on my own so that I’m not spending an arm and a leg to get things fixed? I just did that a few days ago and I’m having trouble accepting the fact that I might have to do it again.
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