Hello all,
Still pretty new here but enjoying my Saab quite a bit
. I bought it knowing that the temperature gauge was slow to rise, but the seller said he had had it verified from his mechanic that the car was getting up to temperature and he replaced the thermostat in that same visit (I have the receipt). Apparently, the temperature sensor was also reprogrammed but not replaced at that time as well (this was 8-9 months ago). I personally am not so sure that the car is getting up to temperature. At the very least, it isn't doing so quickly and I'd like to fix it.
I just replaced the coolant temperature sensor which came from eSaabparts. (I did no programming. Did I need to?)
This had little to no effect. The current behavior of the gauge is with the heater off it will slowly rise to just below the 9:00 position, but it takes somewhere in the range of 20-30 minutes to do so. I've never seen it hit 9:00. With the heat on, the gauge will barely lift off the bottom and again probably takes 20 minutes or so to just barely lift off. The heat is working alright, but underperforming a bit I think. If I start the drive with the heat set to auto and then switch it off, the gauge will then climb at the same rate as if I had had the heat off to begin with (so slowly, but moving). Outside temps here are between about 30-70, but generally well above freezing. The gauge does seem to move a tad quicker when its warm outside.
I've seen a lot of threads on here about similar topics to this but I haven't heard any solutions yet. I'd planned to replace the thermostat myself in case the recent job was done with a non OE product and that made a difference, but I am not convinced that that is the solution because the issue came up prior to tstat replacement; the PO did this repair to fix it, and it didn't work.
I've driven around with a cheap OBD reader plugged in and in that data after running 10-20 minutes the car got up to around 170-180º with no heater running. Same trip with heater running only got me to 140º, but it was about 45º colder on that trip.
Still pretty new here but enjoying my Saab quite a bit
. I bought it knowing that the temperature gauge was slow to rise, but the seller said he had had it verified from his mechanic that the car was getting up to temperature and he replaced the thermostat in that same visit (I have the receipt). Apparently, the temperature sensor was also reprogrammed but not replaced at that time as well (this was 8-9 months ago). I personally am not so sure that the car is getting up to temperature. At the very least, it isn't doing so quickly and I'd like to fix it.I just replaced the coolant temperature sensor which came from eSaabparts. (I did no programming. Did I need to?)
This had little to no effect. The current behavior of the gauge is with the heater off it will slowly rise to just below the 9:00 position, but it takes somewhere in the range of 20-30 minutes to do so. I've never seen it hit 9:00. With the heat on, the gauge will barely lift off the bottom and again probably takes 20 minutes or so to just barely lift off. The heat is working alright, but underperforming a bit I think. If I start the drive with the heat set to auto and then switch it off, the gauge will then climb at the same rate as if I had had the heat off to begin with (so slowly, but moving). Outside temps here are between about 30-70, but generally well above freezing. The gauge does seem to move a tad quicker when its warm outside.
I've seen a lot of threads on here about similar topics to this but I haven't heard any solutions yet. I'd planned to replace the thermostat myself in case the recent job was done with a non OE product and that made a difference, but I am not convinced that that is the solution because the issue came up prior to tstat replacement; the PO did this repair to fix it, and it didn't work.
I've driven around with a cheap OBD reader plugged in and in that data after running 10-20 minutes the car got up to around 170-180º with no heater running. Same trip with heater running only got me to 140º, but it was about 45º colder on that trip.
