What have you guys done? Ive got a mate who is not happy with there not being a water temp gauge in his focus as standard.

Anybody got any pics of alternatives to standard?

 

Sorry bout the small pics (iPhone)



Put something like this in line, and a sender screws in the top

 

Im interested to see what you guys have done inside the car.

 

could go for a scangauge like this



ive got the plx devices gauge which reads water and charge temps from obd and has the afr module

 

Don't have one. 18k miles in the 18 months, between 60 and 600 miles a week depending on where I'm working. No problems.

 

Any others?

 

Being a more modern ford, it has a fail safe cooling system. Where when the engine management detects an over heating issue. It illuminates a warning light. Engages limp mode and will only let you drive for a limited time. Then the engine will shut Down to save a failure.
Much more important for this type of car is inlet charge air temp because there is no fail safe for increased inlet temp . I.e charge cooler pump failure. Which can cause detonation .

 

Scangauge idea is the best, there's a German site that sells something similar too which is configurable for any parameters from the OBD socket.

http://www.obd2-shop.eu/ultragaugeemv12-p-287.html

 

first thing i bought for both my RS's was a scanguage. better to be safe than sorry

 

I've got one of these plumbed into the top hose and a Scangauge too, would say the Scangauge is good enough on its own but the gauge was on the car when I bought it