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Re: Fan Thermoswitch
Posted by CarletonM - http://saabnet.com/tsn/forms/e.php3?em (more from CarletonM - http://saabnet.com/tsn/forms/e.php3?em) on Wed, 19 Feb 2003 21:55:04
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

I would recommend doing that.  Last summer we were returning from visiting 
friends in Toronto and Montreal.  We left our friend's house in Morin 
Heights, which is near Saint-Saveur in the foothills of the Laurentian 
Mountains north of Montreal.  Heading south on autoroute 15, we passed the 
now-closed GM Camaro/Firebird plant in Ste-Therese then drove through the 
city.  There was a traffic backup on the Pont Champlain (the Pont St-Laurent 
was closed that weekend for rework so all the traffic was on this other 
bridge).  The engine started to heat.  By the time we got across to the South 
Shore the gauge was all the way on high.  I pulled off to find an engine 
doing an Old Faithful imitation, and the expansion tank melted.  We got it 
towed to Saturn-Saab-Isuzu Brossard.  A couple days later they pronounced it: 
 'Votre moteur est mort.'  True, the car was over 14 years old (1988 900T) 
and the engine had never been opened up.  So we took the train home and went 
to our local shop in Maryland and bought a 1999 9-5 SE off lease.  Wonderful 
car.

Keeping your engine cool is always a good idea.

Carleton MacDonald
1999 9-5 SE
1988 900T, R.I.P., Quebec
1986 900S, R.I.P., got sideways in the snow, broadsided by two trucks

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