Hello fellow brickers!

I recently bought a Volvo 850 SE with 75K miles on it. Works great, but with a few exceptions that I hope you can help me out with:

My tempmeter is a little bit over 'normal'. If you relate to a halfsized clock, it reads about '2:00-2:30'. All other 850's I've seen has been right at '3:00'.

It doesn't get any hotter than that, I've pushed the engine quite hard to see if it did but the meter is steady. It has been this way ever since I bought the car 2 months ago.

Should I be concerned or is this nothing to worry about? Thing is, we've had outside temperatures between -4 to 40 degrees F here in Sweden the last couple of months, and I'm a little worried about what's gonna happen when it gets warmer. Is it just a bad thermostat?

My car has also started to squeal when running below 2000 rpm's. Sounds like the fanbelt. Don't know if the temp-thing is related to this, it has only squealed the last couple of days, and there's been a lot of humidity during this period.

Another clue to the temp-thing might be the fact that the big, middle air intake in the spoiler doesn't have any 'net' to protect the radiator! Should there be one? I've tried to look at other 850's, but people tend to get annoyed when a stranger crawls around their precious 850... :)

Well, I think that's all! I hope you understand my english and can give me a few hints on what to do.. Thanks in advance!

Stefan

1995 850 SE, B5252, manual transmission.