So far, everyone I've explained my problem to has told me "be happy it's not overheating". I am! But this is confusing the hell out of me...
Recently, my P38 has started showing a much lower reading than normal on the temperature gauge. In the 7 years I've had the car, the temp gauge has always sat dead centre (bar head gasket failure day, but we'll not go there). Now, it just about makes it into the "safe" section of the gauge, sitting on or slightly above the left hand edge of the white operating temperature range.
And I really can't work out why. The only time I've experienced a problem like this before, I'd changed a rad, but there's no reason I can see for the car running cooler. In older cars, I'd think a thermostat was sticking wide open, thus not allowing heat to build up, but I'm lost in this case!
As extra confusion, the car pumps out lots of lovely heat as it gets up to temperature, but on longer runs I have to put the aircon either off or up to HI to get anything approaching warmth. And there seems to be more condensation around the boot that ever before too. I don't know if any of these are related, but any suggestions are more than welcome
Recently, my P38 has started showing a much lower reading than normal on the temperature gauge. In the 7 years I've had the car, the temp gauge has always sat dead centre (bar head gasket failure day, but we'll not go there). Now, it just about makes it into the "safe" section of the gauge, sitting on or slightly above the left hand edge of the white operating temperature range.
And I really can't work out why. The only time I've experienced a problem like this before, I'd changed a rad, but there's no reason I can see for the car running cooler. In older cars, I'd think a thermostat was sticking wide open, thus not allowing heat to build up, but I'm lost in this case!
As extra confusion, the car pumps out lots of lovely heat as it gets up to temperature, but on longer runs I have to put the aircon either off or up to HI to get anything approaching warmth. And there seems to be more condensation around the boot that ever before too. I don't know if any of these are related, but any suggestions are more than welcome