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Originally Posted by capese21
In your opinion and experience. But not in mine!
I see no reason to fit a metal version when the service life of the oem one is perfectly acceptable.
I have one car which did over 60k / 6 years on its original thermostat without a problem. It was changed when the cam belts were changed as was the water pump which to me are all part of the cambelt change on the V6.
Good luck with your metal version. I will not be fitting one.
Ed.  |
My plastic housing had failed at 18k miles. I reluctantly replaced it with the OEM part because at that time there was no choice.
As I had seen this same housing split on the Rover 825 with the KV6 engine, I made the decision to replace it with Kaiser's unit at the timed out cam belt change point. The plastic version has had 2 chances with me, that is sufficient.
I am no longer paranoid about it.
We all have different experiences.
