

| Subject: | Re: adding resister to center 1.9 coolant temp gauge? |
| From: | neil n |
| Date: | Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:19:14 -0700 |
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > Wow -- I was way wrong! The sender is a temperature-dependent resistor? Speaking of which.... A while back I suspected that my temp sensor was going haywire. (the half that connects to the ECU) I tested the resistance every 10 degrees (pic of fetid test method http://tinyurl.com/299hpdh ), while heating up each in a pot of water. I did this with 3 different sensors; the "Luxembourg" (OEM?) used sensor, the newer suspect one, and a new FLAPS brand sensor. They all gave slightly different readings at various temps. The Luxembourg being closest to the graph in the A3 Bentley This is for my Jetta swap, but IIRC, graph is the same for the WBX. I suspect that a WBX OEM temp sensor, and a FLAPS obtained sensor, may suffer similar differences. Neil Not A Scientist. ;) -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines
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