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Old 06-18-2009, 03:50 AM
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Originally Posted by SMG View Post
What it means is the fan comes on at 210F and turns off at 188F. With the fans off the car then settles back to 190F (where it wants to be) and then the fan comes on again when I've stopped and the temperature climbs to 210F.

This is the mildest low-temp fan switch you can get though so there's no real other option. The thermostat is the exact same temperature as the low-temp fan switch (188F) so there's no point where the two are working against each other.

So this isn't changing the running temperature of the car at all, it's only giving the car the ability to control its temperature with a FMIC.
OK, so it cools it down to 188F and shuts off and then the temp goes back up to 190F while cruising--gotcha, makes sense. The first time I read through the 188-190 thing threw me off.
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