Warm Weather (Grey) Thermostat Question
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Something I was wondering about. Is there any advantage (or disadvantage) to running one of the warm weather (grey colored) thermostats?
I don't have any problems with overheating, even in traffic during the summer with the AC going, but I was thinking it might be better for the engine to run at a lower temperature.
I don't have any problems with overheating, even in traffic during the summer with the AC going, but I was thinking it might be better for the engine to run at a lower temperature.
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Considering that older Rover engines, like the 3.9 liter V-8 in a 94 Defender, used a 82 degree C stat, and that was fully open at 82 C, lower temp makes sense to me. Here's page 153 from the Defender manual. Now we don't have a lot of Defender's on here; not too common in USA. But does not seem like you get as many complaints about overheating, etc. If 180 or a little less was OK in 1994, jumping up to 195 - 220 (which may people find out they are running) seems like it could make plenty of things not behave under the hood.
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