GAZZUZZ: Issues with thermostat have been overflogged on NL cartalk. Restore your themostat and set your fans back to their original settings. Ensure you have no coolant leaks and car should run fine.

gaby:

Thanks a lot bro. Please how do I check for coolant leaks?

GAZZUZZ:
What do you have in your radiator? Coolant or water?

gaby:

I've got water in the radiator tnx

gaby:

I've got water in the radiator tnx

CityNG:
You can use water in an emergency but you should research and use the appropriate coolant in your cooling system.
I run distilled water in some of my cars but I add Redline Water Wetter and I monitor the system religiously.
Temperature in Texas runs into 120 degrees sometimes and I have never overheated.
Read up on this, return all the removed stuff back to the way the Chevy engineers designed them (proper coolant, thermostat, fan sensor, etc).
Unlike what some on here think, Nigerian is not Mars and if the vehicle does not overheat in the US it should not overheat in Nigeria.
The only problem in Nigeria is the quality of petrol and it's effect on the SMOG equipments.

gaby: Many tnx boss. Please percentage of water to coolant should I do?

Siena:
50/50 mix ratio.

Readone35L: Dodge charger SRT 8 2010
6.1L Hemi
My thermostat works fine and I have never tampered with it
Coolant and water in the radiator
Yet my engine will eat if I don't turn on the Ac on a long drive
because the fan won't run unless the Ac Is on I never noticed until last week

Readone35L: Dodge charger SRT 8 2010
6.1L Hemi
My thermostat works fine and I have never tampered with it
Coolant and water in the radiator
Yet my engine will eat if I don't turn on the Ac on a long drive
because the fan won't run unless the Ac Is on I never noticed until last week

CityNG:

This is not normal.

ZIMDRILL:

dont rush to say its not normal

from what i have observed here most nigerians when they see the temperature gauge being on the middle they thing it is overheating when infact that the right average operating temperature

the question to ask is on which mark does the pointer points on the gauge

CityNG:

It is not normal and nothing in my original post was a rush.

"the fan won't run unless the Ac Is on"

This is not normal and the temperature gauge should not have great fluctuation (noticeable fluctuations) between running the AC and not.

OP, this is not normal. I'm most certain that a switch is amiss.

Jump on a Dodge forum and ask on there instead of trying to recreate the wheel.

ZIMDRILL:

like i said before we need the figures 1st

most people here think that being on the middle is overheating when it is the normal operating temperature

so without the figures its all guess work

JUO: I think is normal unless otherwise. on a high way my fan doesn't work because of the air flowing in and temperature will be around 80° but will come on in the city and stay between 90°-100°. lastly the fan will come on when I turn on the AC on highway

GAZZUZZ: CityNg is right I did have a chat with readone35L about the issue a week back, the car actually overheats without the a.c on. I told him to check his CTS. Hope you guys will give it a rest now.

sultaan:

or clean dust off radiator first ,but fn should come on for that year he should have check gages light on when hot ,but the fuse box and fan relays should be looked at could have been damages when he said it almost caught fire. a wire might be exposed/damaged causing thiese probs

GAZZUZZ: CityNg is right I did have a chat with readone35L about the issue a week back, the car actually overheats without the a.c on. I told him to check his CTS. Hope you guys will give it a rest now.

CityNG: I've said this before and it may need repeating.

Not all faults in the vehicle will register code. This however doesn't mean that the vehicle is in optimum operating mode. Some fault only register if a certain level of parameter is met. For example the CEL may only come on if the car senses 3 occasions of "knock" in x amount of miles.

Other codes may also exists for other brands but may not exist for another brand. So just because brand A has a P0101 code (as an example) does not mean that brand B should also be able to squawk that code too.

Additionally, I recommend to those NL that have performance vehicles to invest in OBD2 scan tools that are PC based and that offer live scanning. I will have as such with me in December in Ibadan for those that may want to actually see what goes on in their vehicles as they drive. It will literarily show you what sensors are doing and what valves are opening.

Good luck to the OP on solving this.

PS: I'll also have one that is specific to VW/Audi.