Semi-overheating?

[Ckrikos]

I know its not exactly the same but the results should be similar. I recently cleaned my radiators on my 996TT and now my temperature needle no longer goes into the 0 rather it sits to the left of it. When cleaning the radiators i noticed i had a small leak so ordered a set of cfs all aluminum radiators I'm hoping they do the job.

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[CoBeerToad]

Air!!!!
Air in the lines might have caused this. Kinda makes sense to me. I was about a quart or two low on coolant. I did a spectacular launch on the e-way from 0 to 100 in what I think was about 3 seconds. Perhaps the coolant sloshed and sucked some air up in the line.

The thump I heard? Could have been an unrelated problem that I have not discovered yet. Or perhaps the belt slipped. (The sound did resemble the belt falling off). I replaced the pump and thermostat and will be flushing the system with distilled water before purging again and filling with proper Porsche coolant.

I'm feeling better thinking that the problem has been discovered. (I hope)

[CoBeerToad]

Finally got the car off the jack stands and was able to take a drive. Temp is still sitting on the zero. I'm going to re-bleed it again tonight, as I have run out of options. About the only thing I haven't done yet is to replace the temperature sending unit, which since I came this far, I might as well go all the way.