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Old 2nd December 2019, 10:04   #53
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Originally Posted by SD1too View Post
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According to your temperature readings, both digital and using the gauge, your thermostat is not functioning properly. Can you trust your garage to have followed the MGR refilling and bleeding procedure correctly when your oil cooler has been damaged in their hands? I'd suggest that you cannot. Once the possibility of an airlock has been ruled out then the evidence points to the thermostat. As you say this is new, it raises the possibility that the second-hand engine you have had fitted could have been contaminated with K-Seal. Here's my earlier post:





I see no evidence that your temperature sender is faulty.



Simon
Simon, you have come to these conclusions without full data. Whilst my car is a diesel, the principle will still apply. I can drive my car for 10 miles continuously and the temperature will not exceed 72 degrees, with an ambient temperature of 11. By your reckoning, my thermostat is faulty. I can tell you it isn't. What you do not account for (again) is driving style/situation and consideration of the heater being used.



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