Cold weather moves in and I found out that my temperture indicates only approximately 1/8 of the way at all time. It will only reach normal temperture if I let the car stand still. But once it's on the move on highway with oncoming air flow. The temperture will drop down again. Whenever I stop at a red light, the engine recognizes the cold temp and will rev to 1100rpm trying to warm up the engine.

My car use to run water-wetter, but I already drained and replaced new Honda coolants. Anyone else has this problem? Should I be worry about it? Can I still run the car hard if the temperture refuse to climb up to middle?

 

do you have a different thermostat?

 

I have stock cooling system and my ITR does not do that at all. It behaves just like summer except takes longer to warm up.

 

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that and don't push your car until you fix this problem..

 

Mine does that as well. If I drive for over 45 minutes or so with a good deal of high rpm pulls, it behaves like its summer, because its nice and warm. But if I'm just driving around taking it easy it sometimes never goes higher than 1/8 way, even though I drive for half an hour or more. I just deal with it, plus it makes the engine much more responsive

 

sounds like you two have a broken thermostat. It's letting too much coolant by. Replace with a stock.... 180ish degree??? thermo and see what happens.

 

sounds like a thermostat issue to me. also note that I think the ECU adds more fuel when its below normal operating temp, so it can affect performance/fuel mileage as well (probably very little if any difference though).

 

I would replace the thermostat as it is an important part of a well running car.

 

great...another little issue with my car, I've being having too many of these little issue