VZ-FE owner coolant poll

[Toysrme]

Real simple...
VZ-FE owners only, where does your coolant gauge stay.

List your engine, and what it comes in. (if not obvious, like in your sig)


List if you ever had a cooling problem with it (bad coolant, bad hoses, bad thermostat, bad caps), and what caused that problem. (i.e. like old coolant at some point damaged the radiator, so it clogged and started leaking later on).

If you blew a head gasket, did it blow (normally) because the gasket, and head torque suck, or because the engine was having overheating problems before hand, resulting in the blown head gasket.











3vz-fe ES 300
Pin hole in radiator - caused from 10 year old coolant.
Registers at the first bar, only goes to the second on hot days.

Head gasket blew because it sucked ass.

[terrastrife]

i voted 2 bar -- my needle stays just under 1/2 way, i have cheap green coolant, never had a problem with any of the hoses or any failure at all.

[jackfrost1031]

right under halfway

blew a headgasket once, temp guage never really went too hot as I drove only .3 miles with it, had it towed home. Think it blew because it was old (180k). Still sits about the same IIRC.

oh yeah, replaced the thermostat when i got it, would overheat easily, but realized later that it was a cooling fan problem.

[JetspeedCamry]

Same, right under the half way mark. On a hot day, gets to half way.
2VZ-FE VZV21

Never had a problem with coolant as such. Blew a top hose once, but it was old and ratty anyways. Think i've got a leak at the bottom hose/thermo housing area, as after a drive, i get a few drips. Apart from that, all good. Running Red coolant, not "Toyota Red", such a Red equiv. coolant to the green. No different really to the green stuff.

[BlueFusion6851]

Ours ususally is right at the 1/2 mark
3vz-fe Camry

Replaced radiator/ cv joints/ driveshafts to the tune of 1400 bucks last summer
no overheating problems since.

**we replaced the radiator b/c it developed a hairline crack that coolant seeped out of (actually steamed) and caused overheating problems**

[Killa_Kojak]

3VZ-FE it stays at 1/2 no matter how hard i drive.... 11530 km no problems so far and i hope it stays that way

[BlueFusion6851]

the only time ours buried was last summer after driving up and down pikes peak, we had driven another hour or so to the hotel and we parked and left it running, SCHWING! temp needle buried right then and there then we had it flushed at Toyota of Pueblo, CO, cause of iron deposites retaining heat.

[SmokingTires]

3vz-fe

Just under half way on average days. Cold days it doesn't usually make it all the way there. Never made it over half even reving my engine in 90 degree whether.

No coolant/radiator problems with over 211,000 miles on the car.

[ezshift5]

....just under the half;coolant shift(red to pink): at 75k.....along with repl radiator guard/front air dam............