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Replacing coolant thermostat V70 2010 2.4DViews : 12385 Replies : 38Users Viewing This Thread : |
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Jan 29th, 2021, 01:29 | #11 | |
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Jan 29th, 2021, 09:53 | #12 |
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Some engines have the thermostat on their right side, towards the windscreen in the car. Awful to reach.
Normal operating temperature in my D5 diesel is 88°C. |
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Moved over to Jaguar XF Sportbrake. After 20 plus years of Volvo ownership. Different car similar problems caused by Mr Fords interference but far better drive and fuel economy .
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Its a much simpler job on the euro 4's though (how it should be). Why they put the thermostat in such a daft place on the euro 5's is beyond me.
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A parting gift from Ford to Geely?
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I suppose not. How nice of them.
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Over the years my take on inaccessibility of engine components seems to be that the designers worried more about efficient and cost effective assembly on the assembly lines rather than about maintenance and not that they have devious plans to run up servicing bills.
I had a car where the manufacturer wouldn't sell you low cost ABS reluctor rings and you had to buy the whole drive shaft because they bought the drive shafts complete with the rings attached so they didn't bother to put separate rings in the parts inventory. If you bought after market rings, they fitted perfectly but on the assembly line they hadn't wanted to be bothered with assembling the rings onto the shafts so they bought them complete and only sold them that way. The owners club fumed over this but I could see that the fiddly job of putting the rings on the shafts wasn't something that the manufacturer wanted to have to do and the spares situation flowed from that. I suspect that the thermostat site at the back of the engine is of no consequence when the unit is attached to the engine on the engine assembly line and only becomes a problem when it has to be replaced with the engine in the car. Ford would have prioritised cheap assembly over everything while I suspect that the old Volvo company would have figured in the maintenance consequences, but then Volvo was never a cheap car and Ford always strived to make their cars as cheaply as possible.
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Volvo do conduct revisions, from the service point of view, when they are designing new models. Especially things that need access during regular maintenance are considered, since they don't want to show up in tests with a high service cost for no good reason.
But in most tests, by car magazines and similar, they don't show the cost of replacing the thermostat. Most probably due to the fact that with all sensible designs, it's a simple job. I've not studied in detail why they moved it from the upper front left side location on the engine to one you can hardly even see, let alone reach to. |
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Just in the process of doing mine on the E5 D5. (See progress thread)
Picture gives you the bits I’ve had to remove to reach the thermostat. They’re just stacked in the boot, but you get the idea. This definitely is the worst one I’ve ever attempted! |
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