operating temperature?

[Grant Lenahan]

It is common for audis to have temperature sending units that fail or go out
of calibration and provide an errantly low reading to the guage.

Possible.

Grant
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremiah Curry" <jercurry at comcast.net>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>; <200q20v at audifans.com>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 9:07 PM
Subject: operating temperature?


> Howdy all,
>
> The other day a friend was riding in our 99 Passat V6 and asked why it
never
> reached operating temperature.  The center of the temp guage is labeled
190
> and it never got close.  That made me wonder and I noticed that my 1991
200
> 20v never gets to the middle of it's temp guage either.  Should it? (it is
> about 20 degrees outside, but they have both been on fairly long drives, 1
> hour or more)  I am wondering if either or both of them have bad
> thermostats, they both blow warm from the heater, but not really hot.
>
> thanks,
> Jeremiah
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