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Originally Posted by jamesqf
I think my point got lost somewhere. Which is that if you have to climb ~4000 ft of 6% grade* or steeper on a hot day, your Insight will be seeing 230F or higher coolant temperatures before you reach the top - or at least mine does. That doesn't happen (at least in my experience), if you climb just 500 or 1000 ft, descend, then climb again.
*Which you won't often find east of the Rockies, Mt. Washington excepted.
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Some GM cars were designed with 255F cooling systems.I think they ran in excess of 20 psi.
Today's Corvette,at the track,is running 234F.
230 with the Insight is probably okay.Kill the AC and roll down the window until you're past the summit.