Stock engine 175,000 miles.

Just this morning I noticed my CRX's temperature guage going crazy. It will go from normal temperature slowly up to almost the top range (red area on the guage), then hold there for a bit and out of nowhere, go back to a bit higher than normal for about 1-2 minutes before the temperature rises again.

Any recommendations.

Thanks in advance.

-Larkin

 

Replace your thermostat. It's a good time to change the coolant and (possibly) flush the system. Sometimes an otherwise good thermostat will fail to work because of debris in the system.

 

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Also, it looked like both fans are running. I bought a thermostat on the way home today, just wanted to make sure that it is what I think it is and/or get suggestions on what else to check out.

In the past, I've had thermostats fail open (on the Type R and on the Civic Si I owned before that). Then the car just runs cool

 

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Looks like this was the issue. Replaced the thermostat and coolant tonight. Took her for a 20 minute drive and all is well....WOOT!

This car kicks *** as a daily driver. I paid $800 for the thing a year ago, and put 14,000 miles on it since then. It has a total of 175,000 miles and doesn't burn a drop of oil. So what if its rusty. Its cheap to drive and just needs a fix every now and then.

-Larkin