Name this sensor...

[brett@netacc.net (Brett Van Sprewenburg)]

>16V: Right below the coolant temp. sensor on the head is a temp. 
>sender - no wires hooked to it on my car.  I hooked the wire from 
>the oil temp. gauge to it, and it seems to work accurately, so is 
>this just another oil temp. sender?
>Why put two if you only hook up one?
>

If I have my lore correct...you have stumbled on one of the odd 
mysteries of the Scirocco 16v.
It is actually a completely spare, totally redundant coolent 
temperature sensor; for the gauge.

They finally just blocked it off in the 2L's with a plug.  I remember 
mentioning this bit to Jim
when we put together the engine in his convertible, as his motor uses 
the 2L 16v head.

==Brett


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