Over-heating

[CCLaguna]

So....

I was driving, around 80 and I only did it for short bursts. My temp gauage is usually 1 tick over 195, but once i stopped driving and i was in park (engine running)... it shot up to the 3rd quarter. Then I went to drive to a gas station to look at my hood. I drove around 25-30 for about a minute and it went back down.

Any ideas on what happened?

I know it should go up cause I was reving my engine, etc. But still, why wouldn't it go up when I was going fast, it shouldn't go up when i'm in idle, anyone else think this is weird? I'm going to check my engine coolant in the morning...didn't want to burn myself.

[big dude1]

thats entirely normal dude... when ure doing 80 plus, the wind speed is also 80 plus so its cooling your engine down with ease, when you stopped and dropped to idle than there was no airflow so the heat was trapped in the engine compartment... dont sweat it, my 01 cavy always starts heating up when im in traffic or at idle... going through a drivethrough at mcdonalds i usually go up about 20-25 degrees... i think almost all j- bodies do this

[inatalonIXLR8]

Make sure that your rad fan is turning on.

[Cold_Silence]

Yeah its normal, mine does the same, think about it, air is being sucked in to cool it down. I just hate how the fans never work for a backup