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Subject:Re: My Vanagon's blinking coolant light problem vs other peoples'---it all blends together
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:46:21 -0500

At 08:28 PM 1/14/2015, OlRivrRat wrote:
>         I have had 2 encounters recently with Vanagons that
> displayed the BlinkingCoolantLight@StartUp & Quite ByAccident on
>
>the 1st 1, found that if I turned the Ignit'Switch to the
>RunPosition & then waited 20-30Sec's before starting, the BlinkinLight

This is a classic symptom of leaky timing capacitor inside the gauge
which has not gotten quite to the point of frank failure.

Yours,
David

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