For what it's worth:

On the HOTTEST days, my '84 Vanagon (with a complete new cooling system
10,000 miles ago) temperature gauge runs with the "upper" edge of the
needle just flush at the "lower" edge of the LED.  That is, if it were to
go any higher at all, it would begin to cover the LED.  This is quite a
bit lower than Mark and Ari's vans are running.

Keeping in mind that I live in the north central Sacramento Valley in
California, where temperatures are typically 100+ deg F (40+ deg C) every
day in the summer, my Vanagon is running MUCH cooler.

Do others have this same experience?  Or am I really, really lucky!?!?

---Mark McCulley <raven@HALCYON.COM> wrote:
>
> At 06:40 PM 8/3/98 -0700, Ari Ollikainen wrote:
> >Typically the needle reaches a needle width
> >beyond the LED when the either fan speed cuts in. It's still
> >thereabouts when either fan speed cuts out. Is this normal?
> That's pretty much what I've observed on my van. Soon after the fan cuts
> out, the needle drifts back down to its normal position.
>
> MM
>

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