[200q20v] Thermostat is bad?

[Brett Dikeman]

On Wed, 16 May 2001, Greg Grena wrote:

> Just noticed that my water temp and oil temp gauges are running quite high in city driving.  As soon as I
> get on the highway both of them go back down to normal readings.  Is this a thermostat problem or
> something else?  This just started a few days ago.

Somewhat to the right of the center of the gauge is fine.  There's a dot
on the gauge which marks, roughly, the temperature at which the second
stage fan comes on.

Oil gauge on my car typically settles around the same temp as the coolant.

Sometime, when I think of it, I'll snap some digital pictures of the
gauges and illustrate 'em.  This is a fairly common question among 200q20v
owners(they do tend to run hotter than their 10v counterparts.)

Brett