Evening..
While logging my car for faults I spotted that VCDS shows my coolant temperature to fluctuate somewhere between 77 and 81 degrees C. This surprised me as I was expecting it to return something nearer 90 degrees C, so when I got home I took my wife's 2.0T for a thrash and measured the temperature on that as well - it was even cooler sticking around 75 degrees C.
On both cars the temperature gauge rises to 90 and stays there (although mine dips by a couple of mm on the motorway) but I was partly expecting this as they're so heavily damped to prevent people from panicing.
So, can somebody confirm this is normal and a decent temperature from VCDS measurements for this time of year (it's 1 degree C ambient temperature out there when these measurements were taken) or do I have two cars with thermostat issues?
Rich
While logging my car for faults I spotted that VCDS shows my coolant temperature to fluctuate somewhere between 77 and 81 degrees C. This surprised me as I was expecting it to return something nearer 90 degrees C, so when I got home I took my wife's 2.0T for a thrash and measured the temperature on that as well - it was even cooler sticking around 75 degrees C.
On both cars the temperature gauge rises to 90 and stays there (although mine dips by a couple of mm on the motorway) but I was partly expecting this as they're so heavily damped to prevent people from panicing.
So, can somebody confirm this is normal and a decent temperature from VCDS measurements for this time of year (it's 1 degree C ambient temperature out there when these measurements were taken) or do I have two cars with thermostat issues?
Rich