Hello everyone,
I purchased a 2001 Caravan a few weeks ago and it has been running cold ever since. It takes very long to warm up and when on the highway it barely gets above the C mark. In heavy traffic or when idling for a while it gets up to the next mark.
This is in a Vancouver where the lowest temperature we've seen so far is +2 Celsius.
I web search for similar issue and the suggestion is to replace the thermostat so I took it to my crappy mechanic (he's cheap, no wonder) and he insisted that there was nothing wrong with the thermostat as he replaced it and the pump while back for the old owner ( I bought the van through him) and all he did was bleed the system by running the van with the radiator cap off for a while then told me everything was OK. Well, it still runs cold.
No coolant leak anywhere.
I topped off the coolant is good in the radiator and the reservoir.
Should I just replace the thermostat or could there be something else?
Thanks
I purchased a 2001 Caravan a few weeks ago and it has been running cold ever since. It takes very long to warm up and when on the highway it barely gets above the C mark. In heavy traffic or when idling for a while it gets up to the next mark.
This is in a Vancouver where the lowest temperature we've seen so far is +2 Celsius.
I web search for similar issue and the suggestion is to replace the thermostat so I took it to my crappy mechanic (he's cheap, no wonder) and he insisted that there was nothing wrong with the thermostat as he replaced it and the pump while back for the old owner ( I bought the van through him) and all he did was bleed the system by running the van with the radiator cap off for a while then told me everything was OK. Well, it still runs cold.
No coolant leak anywhere.
I topped off the coolant is good in the radiator and the reservoir.
Should I just replace the thermostat or could there be something else?
Thanks
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