My temp gauge goes to AL most of the time. Several shops have said it is running fine and isnt anywhere near that hot. It could be -5 outside, half mile driving, and the thing would read L, it is such a piece of [censored] anyways.
As for my fan kicking on, sometimes they do sometimes they dont. Depends if they fell like it, when I put the A/C on high they do, but I cant leave it like that for long as the car is hard to accelerate with A/C on high.