Hi i have a skoda felicia Estate 1.9 diesel 98'. i am currently having some problems regarding the temperatue of my car. the problem started when i have noticed that the car temperature took a very long while before the the Idle tempreature was reached. So i took my car at a local mechanic he changed a thermostat and the radiator fan switch. now the car's idle temperature is around 95 degrees and the radiator fan switch swithes on the fan when the teperature is reading 110 degrees!!! (that is hot) i have checked that there is no CO2 present with the radiator steam and i have also checked that the anti freez coolant is flowing correctly also i have check that there is no exxesive pressure in the house pipes by felling theme when the engine is hot (at 110 degrees).

Can anyone please help me to sort out my problem? 110 degrees is not good for the engine or at least that is what i'v been told

95/110 degrees are maybe a little above what can be considered normal, but I suspect that the gauge is not exactly calibrated so that in fact the temp can be 90/105 or so. On my Felly there are no numbers on the dial, normal temp is "quarter past" and the fan cuts in at about "ten minutes past".

Unless your mechanic have used wrong thermostat and switch I can't see any reason to worry.

95/110 degrees are maybe a little above what can be considered normal, but I suspect that the gauge is not exactly calibrated so that in fact the temp can be 90/105 or so. On my Felly there are no numbers on the dial, normal temp is "quarter past" and the fan cuts in at about "ten minutes past"

In my car temp gauge works exactly the same way and I´ve found it normal. Upper temp really seems to be almost 110 but I think it isn't much over 100.

If the positions of gauge needle are about same also in your car, Alfred, I think that everything is ok and your Felly need nothing but tough driving

If the engine temperature was actually 110C you'd be feeling a significant loss of power compared with when the engine was warming up. So, as others, I'd say your gauge is probably reading high.

thankyou all for your help. today i have measured the temperature with a tempreture meter and the temperature read 96 degrees when the meter needle was almost 110 degrees i have measured the water temp at the expandable water container that is located near the shock absorber.

Then everything's cool :P. Of course the expansion bottle is slightly cooler than the engine itself, but since it's a closed system the water won't boil at 100 but at 120 or so.

my felicia has only two numbers, 70 and 110, in the middle of then there is a halway mark, my feli is runing cold due to the fact that i have no thermostar (people take it off here in the Domincan Republic cus normal ambient temperature is 31-32, but i just think is stupid :S) an the temp reads 80 or something like 76... i belive it would give me better fuel economy if it reached 90 or in other words the halfway mark

I'd agree Tonny; the thermostat has a number of functions, and one of them is to speed the warmup. 32C is still "cold" as far as an engine is concerned, since as you say they're designed to run 90C or so. Another one is to regulate the coolant flow when the engine reaches a stable temperature, so that that temp wil actually be 90ish, and not the mid-70s you report, so yes you should see better economy with a thermostat, both from the faster warmup and the correct operating temperature.

Hi i have a skoda felicia Estate 1.9 diesel 98'. i am currently having some problems regarding the temperatue of my car. the problem started when i have noticed that the car temperature took a very long while before the the Idle tempreature was reached. So i took my car at a local mechanic he changed a thermostat and the radiator fan switch. now the car's idle temperature is around 95 degrees and the radiator fan switch swithes on the fan when the teperature is reading 110 degrees!!! (that is hot) i have checked that there is no CO2 present with the radiator steam and i have also checked that the anti freez coolant is flowing correctly also i have check that there is no exxesive pressure in the house pipes by felling theme when the engine is hot (at 110 degrees).

Can anyone please help me to sort out my problem? 110 degrees is not good for the engine or at least that is what i'v been told

i forgot to mention, thermostat varie they have varios temperatures, and also, why did he change the radiator fan switch? maybe he change that and did not fit the correct part number... woth taking a look i presume just to make sure the car is running at the correct temperature and the fan is kicking in they way it should for your car

i have changed the radiator switch to be sure that bouth components that regulate the car tepreature are ne and working fine. in summer time here in Malta the Temp sometime reaches 45 degrees and if you are stuck in trafic those are the two components that keep your engine ALIVE