coolant temperature to worries??
The temperature at which the fans come on can be changed with hptuners... Since I got mine, the fans come on at 90 degrees celcius, and bring it back down to about 80-83, depending on the temp outside...
i feel better bout my 210-120 in hot ass traffic 
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you can also have a custum tune done. my tune is set to turn the fans on and the intercooler pump the second i turn the ignition on. im at 185 crusing, and 98-102 iat2s. dont be concerned bout 230 if ur sitting. if gets much hotter or its 230 all the time then i would be worried. till then your fine.
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What is the highest temp of coolant before over heat.. Because when i was stuck at HIN my temperature gauge hit 230 so i crank up the heater and temp. slowly drop until i can get a parking space..Was a little worries.. I check my manual, no temperature danger is indicated... my avg is 185
running the a/c and recirculating the air turns the cooling fans on their highest speed
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You're fine. I've topped 230 once or twice sitting in traffic or coming off the freeway. Your fans will kick on and bring you back to normal. If it got hot enough to be of danger, your car would ding at you, and *then* you may want to fire up the heater or turn the car off.
That should never happen though unless you spring a leak somewhere. A leak, even if no liquid comes out, causes the system to lose pressure and the coolant will boil at a lower temp.
That should never happen though unless you spring a leak somewhere. A leak, even if no liquid comes out, causes the system to lose pressure and the coolant will boil at a lower temp.
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Yours fans will help but they when the engine is cooking water like that you need to check your water pump, your probably thinking " well wouldn't my coolant just keep getting hotter " and yes it would if it didn't work, but 60% of the water pumps from factory come wired wrong, and these pumps are dual polarity, which means they can flow either way, which can hugely affect your water temp if coolant is flowing the opposite direction. I was racing someone today and my coolant touches 192 for the first time ever, so if your in the 220 range, you need to check it out
But you just bumped a thread that's almost a decade old....
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