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Old 02-01-2012, 08:00 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by stephen wilson View Post
You have to remember manufacturers run their engines hot to lower emissions, not enhance reliability.
Yes. And, resellers sell things (different than factory) to make sales. With no evidence, empirical or anecdotal, that suggests that a quicker opening thermostat accomplishes anything - other than to get people who have a factory set up to purchase and install a cooler thermostat. As I've said above, I don't say cooler isn't possibly better but, in the absence of heat issues, there remains no compulsion to alter the factory set up to simply change out a thermostat.
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