This is doing my head in. For some time (a year) my VW Passat diesel (2000) has been just slightly sluggish at turning over from cold. It's never fail ed but with winter approaching I don't want it to. I'd had the battery test ed last year and it was found to be OK but decided to give the car to my lo cal VW dealer to sort out. At the same time, I asked them to replace the th ermostat, because it seemed to me that it was taking too long to get up to temperature compared to how it was when I first acquired it (as a demonstra tor with 9K on the clock). When I asked the dealer how they had got on they said that the battery was not too good and replacing it would cure the the rmostat problem as well as the starting. Eh? I thought. I was given an expl anation by the service manager as to why this should be so re the thermosta t but it seemed complete rubbish to me. But maybe I'm not up-to-date with h ow thermostats work these days. Could one of you kind guys please illuminat e me as to why the service manager was NOT talking rubbish - if this is, in fact, the case.
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9 years ago