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Offline Gary

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Which Thermostat
« on: December 20, 2016, 07:23:50 pm »
Folks, I've had a look but I'm still. Ot sure which thermostat I require.

The symptoms:

Car even after driving for upto 2 hours will show a steady 75degrees odd on the display, it will only ever display 90 when I am slow moving stop, start traffic.

I know it needs replaced but is this the main thermostat or the inline thermostat?

It's a 2007 Edition 30 with a manual gearbox, any help is much appreciated.

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2016, 01:09:19 am »
Main stat under the alternator  :happy2:

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2016, 11:01:00 am »
Thanking you, I have zero mechanical sense so off to the garage it goes.

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2016, 11:14:22 am »
Thanking you, I have zero mechanical sense so off to the garage it goes.
We can't know everything and can only learn  :happy2:

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2016, 11:17:31 am »
Folks, I've had a look but I'm still. Ot sure which thermostat I require.

The symptoms:

Car even after driving for upto 2 hours will show a steady 75degrees odd on the display, it will only ever display 90 when I am slow moving stop, start traffic.

I know it needs replaced but is this the main thermostat or the inline thermostat?

It's a 2007 Edition 30 with a manual gearbox, any help is much appreciated.

Mine is a manual 2007 Ed30 as well and there is only 1 thermostat on this car / model year.


2007 ED30 | 2009 TDI 140 | 2016 BMW 330D

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2017, 12:44:26 pm »
So a new Thermostat didn't fix the issue, did a bit more digging and found that the coolant sensor may be at fault, anyone else tried this?

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2017, 04:55:21 pm »
I'm pretty sure a coolant sensor will throw up a code.
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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2017, 11:10:06 pm »
No these stupid vag cars don't always throw up a code for the temp sensor  :doh:

Does the heat blast out like burning your hand type of heat?. Mine does now but that's because I've messed with the stat.

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2017, 11:42:15 pm »
No these stupid vag cars don't always throw up a code for the temp sensor  :doh:

Does the heat blast out like burning your hand type of heat?. Mine does now but that's because I've messed with the stat.

It certainly seems to heat up quicker anyway which is nice at this time of the year.

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Re: Which Thermostat
« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2017, 01:04:03 am »
Only other things are the sensors then once situated near the stat and there's another on the gearbox side