96 is my answer. What's yours once plateaued?
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96 is my answer. What's yours once plateaued?
What?
Let's see if anybody gets it.
Pulling a Dane on you!
97 is my answer.
95-96, then the blades kick on. OH YEAH!!!
I've not seen 97. Wonder if its seen often.
Any more entries?
103
I'll try tomorrow.
Was thinking to make a histogram with everybody's data but with 4 entries so far this won't be very representative.
Once you car is at operating temperature (driving if you are going straight):
Push the knob on the left in the gauge cluster (keep pushed, if you let go too soon, you will reset the trip odometer).
With finger still pushed, the display will change and say :Test. Let go of the knob for a second and then transiently, repeatedly and slowly, push on it and let go and push and let go. To the right, numbers will change, 01, 02 appears, then 03... push 17 more times until you get to 19.
Once you see 19 displayed and you have removed your finger, wait for " 1 off" to display and transiently push on the left knob once, twice,...7 times.
You are now looking at 19.7.00 which indicates operating engine coolant temperature in Celsius.
If you transiently push again (19.9.01) you get outside temperature, and then other data like RMP, speed in KMPH etc..
Just give me the temp, and we can get the distribution of operating engine temperature for the Mafiosi club.
Disregard mine, was guessing.
No guessing allowed!
Real hardcore data only.
Using a Bluetooth OBD reader, mine is consistently at 190F, so thats roughly 87-88C... mind you, my t-stat is stuck open, but thats my reading at full operating temp.
Can you do this while the car is running? I thought you had to press the knob with the car off, hold the knob in, then turn the key to the 2nd stop to turn the ignition on to start the process.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oli77
Yes you can.
Oli: 96
Dane: 97
Telijah: 88
Small sample so far.
Yeah....my 97 means squat, as I have no friggen idea what you're talking about.
:roflQuote:
Originally Posted by danewilson77
i'm at between 94-97. before my coolant was replaced it would sit at 99 to 101
Whatca talkin' bout, Willis?Quote:
Originally Posted by danewilson77
My 96* don't count?Quote:
Originally Posted by Oli77
Sure does! (my bad).
Oli: 96
Dane: 97 (give us the real one)
Telijah: 88
edlvrt: 96
How many members on the forum again?
Can someone please tell me what this means?
You know, the On Board Computer values when you push on the reset knob on your cluster, the "Easter Eggs" some people call them.
You get your live, second-by-second engine temperature from the sensor. try it.
Ah okay, engine temp. I knew this was on the cluster, but I didn't know what exactly we were looking for.
Yeah, thats the code for engine temp 19.7.00
96 to 97C......or 205 to 207F on my Garmin EcoRoute temp gauge. I had been meaning to check this to see how accurate the Garmin is, thanks for the reminder. Tried out the cluster check too, looks cool!
Something I've noticed......when I run up through the gears my temp will briefly drop from 205 to around 190 (87C) or so. I notice it if I accelerate from 1st or 2nd gear up to 5th or 6th and running it up to 5000 to 6000 rpm in each gear. Temp will gradually drop just after hitting the top gear and come back up to normal within a minute or so. Can someone try this and see if yours does it?
Thanks.....Barry
Oli: 96
Dane: 97 (give us the real one; whenever you're ready:talktome )
Telijah: 88
edlvrt: 96
MrMaico: 97
About your comment, I too notice a drop when (I think) you accelerate and push more air onto the radiator, then when you slow down or come to a stop, temp rises.
Still small turnout can we get more values?
Okay. Finally got around to this today
90
Oli77: 96
Dane: 97 (give us the real one; whenever you're ready )
Telijah: 88
edlvrt: 96
MrMaico: 97
Spencers: 90 (you and Telijah are "in-a club")
I *think* mine peaked around 95C, but don't remember for sure. Right after I replaced my thermostat last year the car overheated so I was using this OBC function a lot to monitor coolant temps, but I didn't know I could trigger it after the car was running. I think driving easy downhill on a cool day with the heater off it was down to 91 or 92C, and idling it would rise to between 93 and 95 before the fan kicked in. Will try this later so you can have another data point instead of my fuzzy recollection.
Mine read 95C on the freeway tonight with ambient temp at 48F
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Oli77: 96
Dane: 97 (give us the real one; whenever you're ready )
Telijah: 88
edlvrt: 96
MrMaico: 97
Spencers: 90
Livesnearcoscto: 95 (will check).
derbo: 95
I would think the thermostat would react faster than that, that's a pretty big temp drop. I really have no good idea what it might be though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Oli77
I wonder if it's the fact that your car is a 2001 that would explain the cooler temp. I've always heard that newer cars are designed to run hotter to help meet emission and fuel economy regulations.Quote:
Originally Posted by spencers
Hmmm... Good point. I'll have to test this again sometime soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMaico
The car was fully heated up and the reading was taken/monitored during city driving. Maybe it would be different highway driving.
I've been monitoring mine for over a year now and I don't see any real difference between city and highway. I see 205 (96.1) most of the time but have seen it vary from 188 (86.6) up to 212 (100). 205 seems to be the average though.Quote:
Originally Posted by spencers
Quote:
Originally Posted by MrMaico
Good point. Need more data...
I monitored mine today on a drive, maybe 14 miles round trip. I never saw it go above 92C, which is weird, as I was sure it went higher than that last summer when I first discovered how to monitor it with the OBC. Weather was 55F and as I drove to then on the freeway, it never got higher than 72C. Once I exited the freeway and stopped at a light, it climbed into the low 80's and after some parking lot action it got all the way up to 90C. I stepped (motor running) to unload something and when I got back in the fan had come on and it was back down to 88C so am not sure how high it got.
Going back to the freeway ranged from 86C to 91C, then on the freeway dropped into the 70's (71-77C). Exited freeway and it went into the 80's. Finally I stopped in front of my garage and sat with the motor running. It climbed slowly up to 91 then dropped to 88, back up to 91, dropped to 88. My theory is my fan is turning on at 91C and turning off at 88C.
This all seems kind of low. Maybe my thermostat is stuck open? It has ~85,000 miles on it. But the buffered temp needle stays in the middle. Mods include EMP Stewart pump (more flow) and underdrive pulleys (less flow). I will try to monitor again on a hotter day.
my bone stock car on the freeway is around 95. During traffic (40mph) on the freeway the car dropped down to 90-92. But overally stock new composite waterpump and stock pulleys for me was done 20k ago.
How old is your thermostat? In your other post you mention you changed it last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by LivesNearCostco
What year is your car? M54? At any rate, that's way too cold. Do you have any hidden codes? At those temps I would think it would light a CEL though. I would have to think it's the thermostat.
My car is a 2003 (August 2003 build) and if we believe the indie shop that once serviced my car two owners ago, my thermostat has 85,000 miles on it and was changed around 2008. I did put in a new aluminum bodied one 10 months ago but it stuck shut, throwing a code and overheating my car, so I put the old one back on.
This morning I drove the ZHP to work (instead of the beater car) and conveniently got stuck in street traffic. Air temps 45-48F. OBC coolant temps cycled same as yesterday... rose to high 70's while driving, 80's at stoplights. When I got stuck in slow traffic, it cycled as follows
88 to 90 to 88 to 90 to 88 to 91 to 88 to 92 to 88 to 91 to 88 to 92.
On the freeway it went back down to the high 70's, and when coasting down a long off-ramp with zero throttle went as low as 73C. When parking got back into the high 80's.
Maybe my thermostat is stuck open. I have a new Wahler thermostat leftover from the warranty replacement of the aluminum one. Maybe I should put that in.
When my coolant temp cycles between 88C and 92C does anyone know if that is the thermostat opening and closing or the fan turning on and off? Are these thermostats set to open at 90C? 95C?