Glad the replacement went well, just out of interest how much coolant
did you loose? I often wonder how many times that a failure of this
valve has actually killed the engine by unnoticed or otherwise overheating.
I once got an entire 740 turbo sedan, from a scrap dealer for 50 GBP,
got all sorts off it before taking it back for crushing, including the
entire heating system (to upgrade my manual gle estate), the gearbox
(auto, now dead, my fault, oops! So cars a manual again lol), the
steering rack (still working very well, the 100A alternator (still
working and bloody brilliant!), the electric seats, etc. ......,
however, the only thing I actually found obviously wrong with the car,
was that wretched valve!
Split open, obviously, the car had bled all it's coolant.
Whatever possessed them to make it out of plastic? The earlier
thermostatic ones in the 84ish 240's were metal, so why not now? It's
almost as if some apparently insignificant parts are designed to fail,
with catastrophic results.
Happy new year! Don't waste that leap second.
TTFN,
Ken Phillips
