RE: Multi Temp Sensor ('88 5ktq)

["Stadmeyer, Francis" <stadmef@pweh.com>]

I have just encountered the lazy temp gauge on my '91 200Q.  I looked in
the Bentley and just found how to check the gauge not the multifunction
sensor.  Where is it located specifically on the 3B engine.  Does anyone
know what the approximate cost for one is?  I don't have a spare to
perform surgery on so I'm reluctant to start cutting.

Frank Stadmeyer

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>From: 	Mike Hopton[SMTP:mike@genesis-microchip.on.ca]
>Sent: 	Sunday, December 07, 1997 12:48 PM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Multi Temp Sensor ('88 5ktq)
>
>
>     Sorry if someone has posted this already. I'm guessing Scott Mockry, 
>     Igor or others have already BTDT, but what the heck I'm a 5ktq virgin 
>     ,so to speak, so here goes my experience to date with the multitemp 
>     sensor....
>     
>     The temp guage on my recently aquired 5ktq ('88) was working 
>     intermittently and so I replaced the multi temp sensor with an old 
>     spare and cleaned the contacts. This fixed the problem for about 48 
>     hours before it returned to it's normal "lazy" operation. Both 
>     sensors were made by VDO and have the 4 spade terminals, 
>     interestingly both have an 11/87 date code.
>(snippage)     
>