To be fair, can you imagine if the gauge didn't stay still and fluctuated all the time? People would be taking their car to the garage all the time!
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Don't go to a garage I used! The thermostat was kaput and it would fluctuate between 90 and 70. The guy at the desk when I dropped it off said "isn't that a good thing?"
Picked it up and they said "they'd tested the thermostat and found it was fine". As if they'd removed it, stuck it in some hot water and put it back in.
Never went back there.
Some cars use an electronically controlled flap instead of a thermostat.
But if you have a thermostat, which is some wax, a spring and a valve then be aware it is not a precise thing.
It gradually opens at a temperature according to its specs an they are usually specified by opening temperature which is different to fully open.
You test a thermostat by putting it in hot water.
But if you have a thermostat, which is some wax, a spring and a valve then be aware it is not a precise thing.
It gradually opens at a temperature according to its specs an they are usually specified by opening temperature which is different to fully open.
You test a thermostat by putting it in hot water.
Just read all this with interest as happened in my grey one ages ago.
Never done it since.
Temp Gauge still takes a while to move sometimes other times it’s fine.
Hope you get it sorted with a cheap and easy fix.
Never done it since.
Temp Gauge still takes a while to move sometimes other times it’s fine.
Hope you get it sorted with a cheap and easy fix.
Cheers Nathan
Welcome back bud and Thanks for that. Yeah it was a horrible moment but since then I have driven it twice and never happened again. Will be picking her up tomorrow, so ses what happens. I'm gonna get the garage to replace the stat and add in fresh coolant just to be sure as it would be a nightmare on a motorway, which I use alot
I'm notoriously tight fisted with getting quality parts at a good price.
Thermostats though, I just buy at the main dealer & pay the £15.
Reason? The aftermarket thermostats have all been utter crap.
Temperature wibbly wobbling all over the place.
With the genuine VAG thermostat, my real coolant temperature (via VCDS), cruising 70mph is 90-91 degrees.
Solid as a rock.
The irony is that they never needed a cheat on the temperature gauge.
Couple of weblinks attached on how those much smarter than me reprogrammed the hex machine code with Vag Tacho, to get the gauge to display properly.
https://www.vwvortex.com/threads/diy-linear-true-coolant-temperature-gauge-in-cluster.4432399/
https://www.audizine.com/forum/show...e-linearization-and-other-cluster-EEPROM-mods
https://www.r32oc.com/threads/vag-tacho-real-time-temp-mod-mod-to-the-mod.40886/
The attached PDF's haven't saved properly, so I would delete them if I can work out how.
Thermostats though, I just buy at the main dealer & pay the £15.
Reason? The aftermarket thermostats have all been utter crap.
Temperature wibbly wobbling all over the place.
With the genuine VAG thermostat, my real coolant temperature (via VCDS), cruising 70mph is 90-91 degrees.
Solid as a rock.
The irony is that they never needed a cheat on the temperature gauge.
Couple of weblinks attached on how those much smarter than me reprogrammed the hex machine code with Vag Tacho, to get the gauge to display properly.
https://www.vwvortex.com/threads/diy-linear-true-coolant-temperature-gauge-in-cluster.4432399/
https://www.audizine.com/forum/show...e-linearization-and-other-cluster-EEPROM-mods
https://www.r32oc.com/threads/vag-tacho-real-time-temp-mod-mod-to-the-mod.40886/
The attached PDF's haven't saved properly, so I would delete them if I can work out how.
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