Coolant temeperature gauge problem
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:05 am
Hi, I have a question. Should the Caddy 2016 2.0 TDI DFSD have two water temperature sensors? One on the radiator and one on the engine block?
I have one problem, the temperature has been climbing to 90 the entire time I've had it and it's been holding there on the gauges and not moving. When I bought it, I found it strange that, compared to the Peugeot 406, when the water didn't heat up at all on the way to work, this car always had 90 at work. It seemed strange to me, but I didn't solve it, since there were no errors anywhere and everything worked as it should.
But yesterday I was driving home from work at a home and within half a minute the temperature rose from ninety to 110 and the sahara started to cool. Then it dropped back to 90. I stopped and went shopping for about 20 minutes. I start it again and the temperature is immediately 90 after starting and within a minute it's about 110 again and the sahara. So I started to monitor it more.
This morning I'm driving from home to my work - 5 km, at a very leisurely pace. I'm watching the needle, which I didn't do before. First 1 km the needle is down, then suddenly the needle rose to 90 within 10 seconds and stayed there.
Otherwise, yesterday I thought the car was boiling, I stopped, the level in the container is correct, after opening the container only a slight hiss and no water jets and the like. All the hoses are at operating temperature to the touch. I turned on the heater and it also heated normally. But I was also driving freely, there would have to be some blockage in the engine for something to have 110.
So a sensor or cable is probably faulty. The diagnostics don't report any errors, so it's probably not the cable. Which sensor would you suggest is causing the problem?
Or could it be something else, like a clogged one or the like?
I have one problem, the temperature has been climbing to 90 the entire time I've had it and it's been holding there on the gauges and not moving. When I bought it, I found it strange that, compared to the Peugeot 406, when the water didn't heat up at all on the way to work, this car always had 90 at work. It seemed strange to me, but I didn't solve it, since there were no errors anywhere and everything worked as it should.
But yesterday I was driving home from work at a home and within half a minute the temperature rose from ninety to 110 and the sahara started to cool. Then it dropped back to 90. I stopped and went shopping for about 20 minutes. I start it again and the temperature is immediately 90 after starting and within a minute it's about 110 again and the sahara. So I started to monitor it more.
This morning I'm driving from home to my work - 5 km, at a very leisurely pace. I'm watching the needle, which I didn't do before. First 1 km the needle is down, then suddenly the needle rose to 90 within 10 seconds and stayed there.
Otherwise, yesterday I thought the car was boiling, I stopped, the level in the container is correct, after opening the container only a slight hiss and no water jets and the like. All the hoses are at operating temperature to the touch. I turned on the heater and it also heated normally. But I was also driving freely, there would have to be some blockage in the engine for something to have 110.
So a sensor or cable is probably faulty. The diagnostics don't report any errors, so it's probably not the cable. Which sensor would you suggest is causing the problem?
Or could it be something else, like a clogged one or the like?