Dan wrote: > What’s important is that as soon as you start the engine and coolant begins > to circulate the temperature should immediately start to drop.
Yes, it dropped as soon as I started it and everything was running. As my grandfather used to say “It dropped like a turd in a well.” Ok, so nothing to worry about. Donald H. Snook > On Oct 4, 2023, at 9:29 AM, dan penoff.com <d...@penoff.com> wrote: > > It’s called “hot soaking”. > > All the latent heat built up in the engine has to go somewhere. If you stop > circulating coolant and the fan(s), that latent heat has nowhere to go, so it > “soaks” the engine, causing it to heat up. What’s important is that as soon > as you start the engine and coolant begins to circulate the temperature > should immediately start to drop. > > Completely normal and nothing to worry about. > > And no, the W124 does not have a fan that will run after shutdown. > > -D > >> On Oct 4, 2023, at 10:22 AM, Donald Snook via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I noticed when I was driving back this weekend that when I stopped and >> turned off the car the temperature of my 124 would climb pretty high. >> Running at highway speeds or even in town, it would never get very high. It >> was staying below the 100C mark. It has a new OEM thermostat, the >> antifreeze is nice and clean, condenser is not clogged up bugs or dirt, etc. >> >> >> BUT, when I stopped for gas or food when I got back in the temperature was >> pretty high. It wasn’t in the red or even past the mark below. I thought >> one of my prior MB’s had an auxiliary cooling fan that would come on even >> when the car was off. Am I “misremembering?” Maybe that was on other cars. >> >> Donald H. Snook >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
