Sensor glitch — logbook Toyota Camry 1989
The temperature sensor began to fail. After overnight parking, it works normally, it warms up a little and goes into the red zone. After warming up and not a long movement, it gets into the middle position.
Issue price: 300 ₽
The sensor is located in the collapse of the cylinders and it is very problematic to unscrew it and it is still located below the waterline - you will have to drain the antifreeze.
Well, probably for a replacement, with the possibility of a return if something happens) or take it from a colleague for verification, but most likely he is a kirdyk.
I understand how else it would be dear, and it can break off, God forbid, then drill ... (
it can attract a sensible electrician to measure the voltage on the panel, with certain knowledge, you can exclude some options ...
Wait, and if you remove the chip from it and short it to ground, and look how the arrow on the panel behaves, then it should, in theory, lie in its extreme position ... and fall when it opens, and is the fan electric? Electric, does it work? if not, then it’s definitely a sensor, and if it works, it means which rams with an arrow, for example, a wire closes to it somewhere.