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Coolant Temperature Gauge varies by year Posted by John Fitzgerald [Email]  (#77)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from John Fitzgerald) on Mon, 4 Apr 2016 07:52:32
In Reply to: Re: Coolant Temperature Gauge - Buffered, Bill Homer  [Profile/Gallery]
, Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:07:28
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Maybe even within some model years.
Our 95 Aero and the 98CSE both act 'normal', with a near 8:45 clock position at operating temp. Very similar to how our '86 and '87 acted.
The '97 Aero caused me much frustration, until a) I read enough guys with similar readings here and b) I stopped driving it as it became my wife's daily driver eight years ago :). As others have posted, the EDU tells the needle to park at 7:30. I tried warmer t-stats, replaced both block temp sensors, flushed and cleaned the radiator, eventually (not because of the EDU display) did the heater core ... Still shows 7:30.
The 98 CSE does vary a little bit, i.e. driving in heavy summer traffic, or cycling the ACC to Econ and back. I watch the temps manually with an OBDII Kiwi iPhone app, Rev, and the '98 is very accurate.
Perhaps there was some end-year model overlap between 1997 and 1998, and a few of those (weak, weird, wacky) EDU's from '97 were installed.
Bottom line: If some guys hate the display on the '97 models, get an app and check it on the phone.
John
Burlington, Wisc
'73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK
'80 99 sold after 20 years/192,000mi
'86 9kT sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi
'87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000 mi
'97 CSE given to my son after 8 years @ 245k; he sold it at 254k mi
still driving:
'95 Aero 136,xxx mi for my daughters to drive
'97 Aero 287,xxx mi wife's daily driver
'98 CSE 229,xxx mi for my daughters to drive
'08 9-5 2.3t 103,xxx my winter daily driver
and a couple of 'non-Saabs':
'01 Suburban 153,xxx mi
'03 BMW 330 Cic 70,xxx mi
_______________________________________ John Burlington, Wisc '73 96 RHD sold after four years in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire, UK '80 99 bought new, sold after 20 years/192,000mi '86 9kT picked up at Trollhatten, sold after 12 years/approx 121,000 mi '87 9kT sold after 9 years/approx 174,000 mi '94 CSE given to my son after 8 years @ 245k; he sold it at 254k mi '95 Aero 146,xxx mi sold '98 CSE 248,xxx mi gave it away '97 Aero 317,xxx mi my daughter’s school car … gave away [we put 300k mi on it] still driving: '97 CSE 170xxx mi 'project car' for myself and my daughters to drive '07 9-3 2.0T 240xxx '08 9-5 191xxx mi my wife's daily driver and a couple of 'non-Saabs': '01 Suburban 201,xxx mi '03 BMW 330 Cic 84,xxx mi '14 Mercedes E350 103,xxx mi
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