'02 a41.8t avant windshield washer pumps

[hayes myers]

T-stat can fail either way.... and there is no replacement for displacement.
Both can be true.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:09 PM, urq <urq at pacbell.net> wrote:

> I remember once when I bought a replacement thermostat for the 5kCSQA ... I
> don't remember if it was from the dealer or a FLAPS.  I remember thinking
> to
> myself, cool it is another Wahler, just like the one I'm taking out.  A
> couple months later I get a call from the wife telling me that the car is
> overheating.  Funny, the original t-stat failed open, which is not *as* big
> a deal as failing closed ... which is what the replacement did.  IME
> thermostats seem to be prone to infant mortality syndromes.
>
> I don't get as much of a warm fuzzy when I read the Wahler brand nowadays
> ...
>
> I've done business with AutoHausAZ on a couple occasions and have never
> regretted it.  As a long time urq owner I still haven't gotten over having
> dealt with Shokan back in the day, perhaps they have changed.  I do
> recommend Scott Mockry's business sjmautotechnik.com.  I'm not a big fan
> of
> Blau, but personally I think I'd check there before Shokan.  I still miss
> Rod Ramsey and Didi ...
>
> Steve Buchholz
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Bought a thermostat from them, four months later, car overheated resulted
> in
> cracked head, which yielded a replacement engine, since it would have been
> more expensive to replace the heads.  Does that help?
>
>
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