I thought the reason for the low coolant light was that the temp
sender for the gauge is not in the engine like in a normal car.  It's
remote in the thermostat housing.  So if you get a sudden loss of
coolant the gauge might not even register elevated temp because there
would be no hot coolant hitting the sender.  Is this right?

Thanks,
Edward

At 11:04 AM 9/21/2011, Don Hanson wrote:
>  I probably would not even own my vanagon now if I'd heeded that LED warning
>light, which was flashing when I bought the van near Tacoma and drove a few
>hundred miles home.  In fact, it may *still* be flashing, over 65k miles
>later...I just taped it over, after about 3 frustrating attempts to make it
>work consistently and correctly.