MartinC
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Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
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Mar 30, 2009 17:38:40 GMT
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Just bought a sensible modern Rover 45 diesel for the wife. However, she tells me it takes at least 4-5 miles to get warm. Is this a common thing or will it just need a new thermostat. If so, where the heck is it?
I know it's a duf question but after owing over 60 cars it's A) my first diesel, and B) my first car built after 1994, so, after looking under the bonnet at all the plastic rubbish I was none the wiser!
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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Mar 30, 2009 18:00:21 GMT
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i had the use of one for a short time. Sounds normal to me. Either that or a common fault lol. Does it stay warm ok and not get too hot/cold?
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MartinC
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Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
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Mar 30, 2009 18:16:36 GMT
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temp gauge goes to halfway quite quickly and stays there but heater doesn't blow warm for a couple of miles after that.
Seems odd, usually it's the other way round, heater blows warm soon after start up with gauge rising later.
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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bazzateer
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Imping along sans Vogue
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Mar 30, 2009 18:35:11 GMT
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My company Vectra Diesel is much the same. Yours could be an airlock somewhere?
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport 1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport 1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2 1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome 2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily) 2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily) 2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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bortaf
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Mar 30, 2009 19:05:58 GMT
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If it has the pug diesel lump in it then me motherinlaws one is the same, for some reason the vacume operated valve doesn't open till the stat is open and that takes ages on a diesel cos they produce less heat than a petrol (tis why they are more ecconomical), mind you hers is and earlyer one a 418
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MartinC
Part of things
Don't like stretched tyres, very low profile tyres & I think a car CAN be too low. Perhaps I'm odd.
Posts: 935
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Mar 30, 2009 19:12:10 GMT
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dunno, it's a 2000 intercooled model. L-series?
I'll put a new stat in it for what they cost if someone can tell me where it is!
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1937 Standard Flying Twelve
1943 Bedford OYD
1947 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty-Special
1954 Hillman Minx MkVIII
1956 Austin A30
1957 Vauxhall Victor Super
2001 Chrysler 300M
2002 Rover 75 Connoisseur SE Tourer
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Mar 30, 2009 19:23:56 GMT
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if its a Rover 45 then its the Honda 2.0 Diesel engine. Sounds like maybe a sticky stat to me
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Mar 30, 2009 19:46:11 GMT
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Honda, eh? The Rover (not Honda, as they only started making their own diesel engines a few years ago...) Diesels I've had have been slow to warm up too, might be a common issue.
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Mar 30, 2009 19:56:38 GMT
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That will be the L series diesel in that model.Its a good engine,bit noisey but good. Diesels waste less energy through heat loss,and as a result take longer to warm up.I've had diesels for years and yours sounds spot on for the time it takes to warm up.I would'nt even bother with the time and effort to change the stat as you won't make any difference. Dons anorak: As stated before honda have only recently developed their own diesel engine i-CDTI,before this they used lots of other companies diesel engines Rover being one of them. Hangs up anorak:
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Mar 30, 2009 20:26:03 GMT
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I stand corrected
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Tim
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check the coolant is topped up, if its a bit low you can get an airlock in the heater matrix and it'll take ages to get hot.
top it up with the engine running (not hot though), and check it every morning for a bit - did that on the 106 and it sorted the heatying out a treat - was like a furnace after that :-)
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