peugeot 205 diesel overheating at speed

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ianbowie@hotmail.co.uk - 11 Sep 2006 12:03 GMT

I have a peugeot 205 diesel, It only overheats (red temperature light
comes on) when I am in fifth gear and driving over 70 miles an hour or
when I am in fifth gear and driving up a hill where I need to have the
accelerator peddle pressed to the floor to keep the speed at 60. The
coolant is clear, not muddy coloured and I have recently bled the
system of air. The engine is not using water either, the water level in
the expansion tank remains relatively constant. The car never overheats
when sitting in traffic. How can I fix this and stop the car from
overheating.

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cosmicdance - 12 Sep 2006 07:23 GMT

It sounds like it’s blocked up somewhere - probably the radiator.
If it was the thermostat sticking then it would over heat in traffic
too.

Try flushing it out with that rad stuff and then use a hose pipe in
the rad to flush the bits out.
Simply draining it then filling up will not clear a blokage.

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> I have a peugeot 205 diesel, It only overheats (red
> temperature light
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> from
> overheating.

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Tunku - 12 Sep 2006 20:31 GMT

ianbowie@hotmail.co.uk wrote in news:1157972613.721918.5890
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> I have a peugeot 205 diesel, It only overheats (red temperature light
> comes on) when I am in fifth gear and driving over 70 miles an hour or
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> when sitting in traffic. How can I fix this and stop the car from
> overheating.

seized brake calipers?

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"end user" v. A command regrettably not implemented in most systems.

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ianbowie@hotmail.co.uk - 13 Sep 2006 13:00 GMT

The brake calipers have been siezed but I was able to work them free
without having to replace the sliders. Is the engine overheating a
common fault associated with siezed brake callipers? Should i be
replacing the sliders, since they have seized in the past?

> ianbowie@hotmail.co.uk wrote in news:1157972613.721918.5890
> @q16g2000cwq.googlegroups.com:
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>
> "end user" v. A command regrettably not implemented in most systems.

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