TurboABA
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Please God, grant me patience!
Do you have VCDS?
Can you use it?
Log\monitor a bunch of different temps in an attempt to see when\why it's overheating. I don't have your engine, so I can't tell you exactly which sensors you can read off it, but there should be a bunch. You should have coolant in 2 or 3 places, oil temp, IAT, etc. If you've already done this and your block temp is the only one that gets hot (I read this as oil temp), then you need to notice it's relation to the rest of the temps. (this is when logs help)
If your block\oil temp goes high at an accelerated rate or behaves wonky, it could mean a faulty sensor. If you have a flaky sensor, which reads way out of wack compared to the rest of the temps, it could cause the thermal management system to act up under certain conditions and lead to an overheating situation. If your WP isn't circulating, you should be able to easily tell by touching the inlet rad hose vs the outlet when your gauge is showing that you're overheating.... if both of these are near the same temp, then it verifies that there's no flow through your rad, and since you just had your thermostat replaced, we can safely assume that the WP isn't working.
Do you have VCDS?
Can you use it?
Log\monitor a bunch of different temps in an attempt to see when\why it's overheating. I don't have your engine, so I can't tell you exactly which sensors you can read off it, but there should be a bunch. You should have coolant in 2 or 3 places, oil temp, IAT, etc. If you've already done this and your block temp is the only one that gets hot (I read this as oil temp), then you need to notice it's relation to the rest of the temps. (this is when logs help)
If your block\oil temp goes high at an accelerated rate or behaves wonky, it could mean a faulty sensor. If you have a flaky sensor, which reads way out of wack compared to the rest of the temps, it could cause the thermal management system to act up under certain conditions and lead to an overheating situation. If your WP isn't circulating, you should be able to easily tell by touching the inlet rad hose vs the outlet when your gauge is showing that you're overheating.... if both of these are near the same temp, then it verifies that there's no flow through your rad, and since you just had your thermostat replaced, we can safely assume that the WP isn't working.
