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Thermometer reading WAY too high

posted by  Kennedy on  Mon Jul 18 08:35 CST 2005
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...for example, 136F on a fairly warm day. 70F at dawn on a coolish-morning about a minute after starting.

Any thoughts on what's causing the overly high misreadings? Haven't dug through my Chilton's to try to isolate the problem yet, but off the cuff, has anyone else seen this?

This is in our new (used) '99 C70 Convertible. The outside temperature guage in our '99 V70R AWD, on the other hand, seems to read pretty accurately.

Thanks in advance for any insights.

-KB
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'99 V70R AWD || '97 850 || '90 780 Turbo








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    Thermometer reading WAY too high

    posted by  will rehsper on  Tue Jul 19 13:18 CST 2005
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    KB,

    My only observation is that when my car is sitting after running, heat will tend to soak from the radiator, giving a faulty high reading. I've never seen anything that high though. The sender should be down behind the bumper somewhere, perhaps you can trace a problem from there?

    I hope it doesn't detract too much from your top-down driving fun!

    Good Luck,

    --Will
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    '95 850GLT - 141K miles - http://www2.mne.psu.edu/sae/FSAE/








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      Thermometer reading WAY too high

      posted by  Kennedy on  Tue Jul 19 16:48 CST 2005
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      Not detracting a bit, Will! Not as fast as our R, less stable than even our 850 (until the IPD bars go in), not even the cargo capacity of our 780, but we absolutely love it. It's made getting a sunburn fun again.

      I was determined to find something wrong with this car after I bought it, and this may be it.

      Some similar feedback came through the Volvospeed forum the other day; I'll report back when I can on whatever it turns out to be.

      -KB
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      '99 V70R AWD || '97 850 || '90 780 Turbo







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