Crazy Texas Heat

[Nsane1]

Ok, I've had a few severe heat related problems in the SRT that I wanted to share.

I live kinda urban, so lots city driving, not a lot of air flow, low speeds, and HUGE A/C. 3 weeks ago:
1) While parking, power steering stops working until I cam back an hour later.
2) While parking, A/C didnt work, even after a drive about 1 mile, totallu blowing hot air. The car keeps getting hotter and hotter, and the temp gauge gets within one hair of red. I shut the car down. Try a few times, temp wont decrease. Call dealer, they advise it to be towed so as not to damage.
After 4 days in the shop, they can't reproduce the steering or A/c problem, and produce a page out of the service manual, that shows a pic saying a hair right next to red is "OK\" under heavy loads.

So nect time I won't overreact about the heat... I'll tell you my GTS is working great in the heat.

 

[FASTRNU]

Uh.....So what type Viper do you own, an SRT 10, a GTS, or both? Your post confuses.

 

[Skip White]

If you're car is running over 215 at anytime, there is something wrong, and that should only happen when idling for over five or ten minutes, or after a hard sprint. It should fall back down to around 205 in the hot time of the day with the A/C on. My SRT never goes over 205 and will fall back to 195 in high gear at night time. I live in Fort Worth, so it's just as hot here. If you are really running the car hard with the A/C on in the daytime, doing back to back sprints, then the car may run hot, but that not good to do to these cars in this heat, they can't cool them selves that quick. Are you running it like this?

Skip White

 

[Smog Dog]

By your post, it looks to me like you own both an SRT and a GTS. I have never had any of the problems which you describe, but here in Ohio it's not as hot as Texas. However, in the 88 to 90 degree range, I've never seen the temp. gauge anywhere near the red, nor had the AC blow hot air. You have a very legitimate gripe! I was surprised how much the visors being turned almost straight up helps in the cool air circulation in my SRT.

Bill

 

[kverges]

That is definitely unlike my car, Greg. My SRT cools perfectly, right at 190 temp even stuck in traffic and not even over 200 in a track outing. Sounds like a P/S pump problem or valving issue, as though the pump were making no pressure at all, thus not driving the cooling fan or steering rack.

Let me know if you track down the culprit.

 

[MiamiJeff]

I've had no steering issues though while slowly maneuvering/parking the SRT, a few times I've had the a/c suddenly blow hot for about 5-10 seconds. A bit of a mystery. Haven't ever had that happen in my GTS.

Overall though, the SRT's a/c seems a bit stronger & is certainly more flexible.

 

[ABADASP]

It`s hot in Oklahoma also out driving in 104 heat the other day all stayed cool the a/c seems to work better than in gen II`s and the car runs cooler than genII`s. the a/c does blow hot air when accelerating and does not have to be full throttle like the genII`s but only blows hot for a few seconds. Now if the interior didn`t get so hot when you parked the car.

 

[Viperfreak2]

This SRT thang sure ees gonna be NICE in the winter! Yeee Hawwwwww