Remove Rad Shielding? Yay Or Nay?

[collateral 0]

Hey guys,

 

My 1.6 was running pretty hot on the motorway during the warmer weather we had last Sunday (made it to 3rd last marking on the dial iirc, in moving traffic, nothing over 4k rpm). Today the garage had a play with my idle, saying the CO2 emissions were running very lean, she still seems to be on the warm side.

 

Although my rad does look a bit vintage, I'm skint so I've been wondering what the general consensus on removing the radiator shielding is? Is it worth doing? I'm talking about the plastic which blocks the useful-looking hole in the lower front valence.

 

I threw some rad seal in a few weeks ago due to her drinking coolant like a fish and luckily this seems to have solved that one...guess there's life in the head gasket yet! Breathed a sigh of relief or two over that one!

 

Cheers!

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[Anthony 1,003]

I'd hardly call the weather last Sunday "warm". If your car is running too hot when it's this cold outside, then there's something amiss - and a grotty looking radiator that's bunged up with radweld would be somewhere near the top of the list.

 

Removing that panel is going to do very little in my opinion - your issue is more fundemental than that.

[collateral 0]

Fair dos, although it was running hot as a bugger before I put the seal in. As it was I couldn't see any steam but I guess there must have been a pin hole somewhere...she was going through pints weekly. Now loss has stopped but it's still hot...

 

New rad time?

[CaM 0]

new rad for sure, radiator sealant block galleries sometimes..... flush the whole system with a new radiator.

 

I took the blind thing out of the lower bumper. seems to keep it cooler, helps bring the temp right down to thermostat opening point after you've been sitting in traffic and it creeps up toward where than fan cuts in...... our temp is rockin aroun 25+ degrees centigrade lately though

[Rob_the_Sparky 10]

Rad leak stop type products are fine for a quick fix but if you leave them in then they will block up all sorts of places you would rather they didn't.

 

A new rad isn't expensive from GSF or alike (expensive from Peugeot unless their prices have changed over the last few years) and is almost certainly the problem although I'd also check/change the thermostat.

 

Rob

[newdean0 0]

Could also be the rad weld stuff has knackered/bunged up your thermostat. Though whenever this has happened to me the temperature shoots straight off the scale rather than just being high.

[dee205 3]

The car shouldn't be running over hot when moving. You've got a problem and rad weld isn't the solution.

As said it could end up blocking the system somewhere like the heater matrix causing excess pressure and leaking.

 

I'd try a new rad, thermostat for good luck and a coolant flush to get rid of the s*ite already there.

 

 

Damien