MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: DomBacon on January 09, 2015, 06:20:39 pm

Title: Thermostat recall?
Post by: DomBacon on January 09, 2015, 06:20:39 pm

My thermostat has gone, my mate works in a vw specialist garage and one of the blokes in there said his mate went to vw for a service and they fitted a new thermostat and new coil packs under a quiet recall apparently. . .
Dont know how true this is yet, anyone heard of anything???

Title: Re: Thermostat recall?
Post by: th3_f15t on January 09, 2015, 06:57:40 pm

Coil packs are well known about, but never heard of thermostats being a recall.

Title: Re: Thermostat recall?
Post by: GrayMK5GTI on January 09, 2015, 07:33:20 pm

No recall for thermostats.

Recalls are for safety reasons

Coil packs fail = fire
Thermostat fails =  engine takes longer to warm up  :laugh:

Title: Re: Thermostat recall?
Post by: DomBacon on January 09, 2015, 08:01:49 pm

That's what I thought but he was very consistent with telling me I don't need to buy the part from him :/

Title: Re: Thermostat recall?
Post by: Tortaruga on January 09, 2015, 09:30:47 pm

Afaik if you don't replace a stuck thermostat the engine will run hot which isn't good.