Radiator cooling fan quandary

Pretty much all of the 308 cooling problems you read about concern the condition where the car is stationary or near so, crawling in heavy traffic, on a hot day but everything is perfectly normal when the car is moving. So it's an airflow issue, not anything else. When the car is not moving it needs the fans to move air through the radiator. In my opinion the main reason the 308 is so marginal in this respect is due to the spare tire tub blocking nearly 1/3 of the outflow side of the radiator. It seems that the 328 solved this problem by mounting the radiator at an angle so that it does not rest up against the tub and mounting the fans as pullers on the rear. I think the Mondial also has just a single puller fan and we don't hear much about them overheating either. Unfortunately this is not something that can be easily rectified. There was a thread by someone here who was doing it and it was a lot of modification. You could remove the forward section of the tub. I know that most 308's have the original spare which has never been used so you could just leave it in the garage I suppose. Removing the tub section however is a bit more involved than just a few screws but if you did you'd be free to mount your fans on either side and probably increase the size as well.

But I understand that not that many people want to do any invasive type of modification to their car myself probably included.