Ok so here's the back story.

Over the past week my car has been overheating when cruising at slow speeds, but on highway it would go back to normal temperature. First thought was low antifreeze or air bubble in the system. The heater in the car was blowing hot air on demand and upon turning on would lower the engine temperature when it was getting near the danger zone. So after the antifreeze level checked out perfect and no air bubble in the system I decided it may just be the temp sensor acting up as it was OEM and the car has over 320 000 kms on it. So new temp sensor put in and didn't solve the problem. Next step was to replace the fan relays, did this one at a time, only because the parts store didn't have all 3 in stock so I figured get one a day in the hopes that the one I change is the culprit. Again no luck. When the car was sitting at a stop light the idle would surge, when the fans would engage, by this I mean drop and then after about 10 seconds the idle would go back up, so this was telling me the fans were not engaging. Finally got the time to actually hook up the multimeter and was getting power to the fan relays, so this tells me the pcm and temp sensor are working as the signal is being registered and sent to the relays, but the power was not getting to the fans. Followed the wiring diagram and checked everything at the fans all looked good and tested good, then pulled the ground out behind the drivers side headlight and the wires had rotted to the point of crumbling once moved lol, so put in some new wire and a ground and reconnected and the car is idling smooth and no longer overheating.

Just figured this may help anyone if they experience the same issue

 

Thanks, i will definitely look into this.