hello guys, going to fit my new thermostat and plastic housing as the old one has cracked, I see there's 2 nuts to hold it in place,so would it be a case of bolt off and bolt on and then bleed system, also when I do a gravity bleed can the car be off and will it still be bled correctly, another question is I know the bleed point on the thermostat and one on the radiator but the one on the heater matrix is that the one with 2 pipes going in to it and is the bleed opening the one that looks like a wheel dust cap, just want make sure I'm bleeding right things and if anyone can put out a pic up of the heater matrix And it's bleed point will be greatful, thanks guys all advice appriciated

Thanks stan, your a god send mate thanks

Thanks mate, also one last thing is there any particular order of bleeding the bleed points cheers

Sorted so open rad point, so when fluid comes out close, then move on to thermostat one, close then matrix last

Right me again ( don't look disappointed) lol, well fitted new thermostat but I go a issue the one I took out was a bit rusty and had to use a flat edge screw driver to leaver it off the housing, how ever the new one I fitted I bled all air out system and took it for a drive, the temperature when drivin sits between 80-85 and when stand still it goes 90-95 is this ok because my last one was sitting at 70 driving and standstill kept going up I think lol so just want to know if this is the right new temperature both pipes on rad seem same temperature all the blew points are air free as I checked it again and again so any idea guys

Yes it was cracked so I'm glad it sits good then lol sorted thanks retro pug and stan appriciate it guys

Just to add to this i think my thermostat is showing early signs of acting up sometimes the low speed fans come in really quite late and just recentky it crept up to the red before the fans came in.

So does this sound like a tired thermostat? I'm assuming if the fans were playing up they wouldn't work at all?

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have you tried the brown sensor on the thermostat housing, unplugging it when car's running to see if fans spin up at full speed?

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Changed the stat and the car runs consistently 10oC cooler whilst driving. Before it would sit at 90 and now it doesn't go above 80. Also because of this the oil temps are also about 10oC cooler.

So this has made a massive difference.

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