I had one here that stuck in the middle... opened slowly but would not open
all the way.

Cya,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
David Beierl
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:04 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: 80c or 87c thermostat?

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