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Old 04-28-2023, 04:33 AM   #277 (permalink)
Isaac Zachary
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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr View Post
Had it been 100% accurate, nobody would be removing the thermostatic valve and setting the fan to be triggered on at a lower temperature in certain cars. Ford for instance, a lot of its models were plagued with overheating issues back in the day of the Zetec-Rocam engine, which used to be its bread-and-butter in Brazil from the early 2000s until around 2013.
Usually overheating is a problem from some sort of failure, not lack of cooling capacity, although I could see a company cheaping out on cooling or overall engineering, just to make a better profit.
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