My Acewell has a digital temperature display and on my way to the SVA on Monday it read 77oC in normal driving and got up to 94oC stuck in the stop/start M60 commuter traffic. Can somebody tell me what their Pinto temperatures are reading during normal driving and what temperature I should set the max temp warning light at to avoid an engine melt down - it got a bit toasty under the bonnet at 94oC!!!

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TA

94degs? thats like totally normal

Whippy he telleth the wisdom

Temperature in traffic totally depends on your electric fan cut in and drop out in temperatures ---- provided the fan is big enough for the job.

94 sounds about right --- in a radiator the coolant boils at about 115 to 122 c depending on the radiator cap pressure.
As long as the coolant dosen't boil all is well.

mine sits bang on 90 whilst driving about goes up to about 95 when sat in traffic. Never had any problems