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12-17-2013, 01:31 PM
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how many miles? sometimes a blocked or very old radiator (dirty) can cause similar symptoms, its just efficient enough at idle to radiate off the excess heat, but the extra heat of driving is just enough to push it past its peak efficiency. And thus the heater core makes up for that little bit of extra heat and keeps the system from overloading.
Can you unlock your instrument cluster to see the actual engine temperature, or use an OBD connection to do the same? I suspect that even with the heater on, its still running slightly hotter than normal, but it happens to be within the range of 'normal' so that the cluster shows it at the middle mark.
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