Hey guys.
I've been driving my 1989 Honda Accord for about a year now and am closing in on 200k. I had been driving heavily, 200 mi/day highway all last summer. I stopped making these highway runs back in September and as the weather started to get colder my 89 Accord began to get warmer and warmer.
I don't know what's going on exactly but basically here are the facts:
- If I leave the heat on, fan setting 1 - car will likely stay normal temp
- If I run heat full blast the car never overheats even on 2 hr journies, but I get way too warm and the heat seems to be abnormally hot.
- If I run cool air (not a/c) on fan setting 1, car will start getting hot
- I have never seen the car get all the way into the "H" zone
- If I turn the heater on when the car starts to get a little too hot, it almost instantly returns to normal temp
- One day, we were trying to diagnose if the fans were coming on and it took nearly 30 minutes of idling in a driveway to induce overheating with the heat/fan all the way off. But right as it got really close to the "red zone" both radiator fans kicked in and blasted away all the heat away in a matter of seconds. Maybe a thermostat issue?
- Hitting A/C button/Heat doesn't trigger fans
- this issue coincides with the installation of an amp and subwoofer that suddenly stopped working
- the audio equipment isn't turning on because it is only getting like 9.8V from the Head Unit
- All of a Sudden my gauge cluster stopped lighting up with the headlights. Instead it waits approximately 30 seconds and then turns on after the headlights
- I think my car has gremlins.
- I need help.
It's a great car though and I would appreciate advice on any of the issues listed above. Most of it is about the overheating issue but I figured I'd throw in a couple of miscellaneous problems in there in case we have a car audio expert in here or one of my car's gremlins is reading this.
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