# Overheating at Idle

**URL:** <https://forum.g2ic.com/t/overheating-at-idle/31981>\
**Category:** Stock Engine-Bay Components\
**Created:** [December 22, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.g2ic.com/t/overheating-at-idle/31981 "2002-12-22T20:02:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.g2ic.com/user_avatar/forum.g2ic.com/system/32/1_2.png) [@system](https://forum.g2ic.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.g2ic.com/t/overheating-at-idle/31981/1 "2002-12-22T20:02:22Z")

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What’s up everybody.

I’ve noticed a lot of people talking about their car overheating at idle and then going back to normal temp when driving. My car was doing the same thing. I read a lot about bleeding the radiator but that didn’t seem to help. The other day my car completely up and died (ignition coil went out) and I took it to a shop near my house (mechanics that you can actually trust, and here I thought they didn’t exist). They’re Honda and Acura specialists. They checked it out and found my radiator was clogged 40%. Anyway they rodded it out and now the temp gauge never even gets to half way. It cost me about $100 bucks to get it rodded but it was well worth it.

Ryan