thanks for all your replies, it is still running at about 3/4 o the motorway but never in the red, changed the rad as the fins had rotted, head gasket just for piece of mind as its done 125000, water pump as it had play in bearing and a temp sender tried bleeding the system about 3 times and it still sits that high oh yes and changed the visco unit twice, just gotta live with it i think it runs fine and never reaches the red apart from when the rad is blocked with mud so never mind, might try the earth thing as suggested. But its gotta get me to normandy in sep so fingers crossed haha
!! no i trust it
Graham