Mark  can't coment on the power windows but the tem guage seems fine to me.Mine
stay a hair right of the light, so you can see the light.    Marcus

Mark Schrope wrote:

> First question-  the power window on my passenger side goes down slow and
> up really slow.  I thought that it meant the motor was on the way out, but
> it's been like this since I bought it (1.5 years) with no change.  Never
> fails to work, just alway slow.  Any ideas on what would cause this?
>
> Second question-  My van since I've had it has always run with the needle
> at about the very top of the light on the gauge-  Judging from what others
> have said this is about normal, though a bit higher than some who say dead
> middle.  Not a problem or a concern for me.  This summer I've noticed that
> driving long trips, especially during the day the needle is running higher,
> maybe a needle-width above the light.  I thought perhaps I just hadn't been
> paying very close attention last year to the effect of summer temps and
> A/C- This is my first water-cooled van so I'm still fairly new to all this.
>
> In preparing for a trip from VA to CA in September I've been doing a lot of
> preventative maintenance.  Most recently I had the mechanic do a couple of
> things including put in a new thermostat.  I was going to have him send the
> radiator off to be cleaned out, but he said that he looked inside it with a
> mirror and that it looked really good so he wouldn't recommend having it
> cleaned.  I did have the system flushed about 6 months ago, and had read
> that this sometimes causes junk to build up in the radiator.  The main
> reason for writing is that now, even around town, the bottom of the needle
> is always just above the very top of the light.  I'm not overheating or
> getting a light on or anything, but it is definitely running hotter than it
> used to.  The fan seems to be working fine, the old thermostat was not low
> temp, and I bled the system again and got only a tiny bit of air out.
> Anybody have any ideas or suggestions on what I should check into?  Does
> this sound like something I should be working on?  Thanks for any help or
> suggestions.
>
> Mark
> '89 Wolfsburg
>
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