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Subject:Re: 80c or 87c thermostat?
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:04:01 -0400
At 12:25 AM 4/15/2010, Tom Hargrave wrote:
>Also the only thermostats I've seen fail have failed open, not closed.

The one that came (to me, VW part) in my '89 would start to open at
the correct temp, would be fully open at the correct temp, but was
much too closed at the intermediate spec.  Made the engine run
noticeably cool, needle well below the LED.

Yrs,
d