I’m not a car guy. I want to be. I’m learning. I learn by making friends with mechanics and absorbing their information. I had a car a few months ago with some overheating issues. (Got it resolved. No water in my coolant at all, using straight concentrate in a brand new, empty radiator, like a dingus. 🤦🏼‍♂️) But before I fixed it, someone said it might have been the thermostat. I asked a mechanic friend of mine about it. (I haven’t known him long.) He told me he’s been a mechanic for right around a decade and has NEVER seen a thermostat issue cause overheating. Is he just totally out of touch? Or did I misunderstand how the cooling system of a vehicle works? Let me know.

  • OsoCheco@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    In the 6 years of my experience, over 12000 cars went through our shop.

    Not a single thermostat stuck closed.

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      1 year ago

      As I prior tech for 40 … 2 cents here …seems to me newer thermostats are fail safe …over heat once and then slightly stays open …I haven’t seen stuck closed in seems like 10 years .