Thermostat Gates or MotoRad

Big fan of the Motorad SNN-2000-195. Works great.

Just so happens my clearance thermostat is a Motorad which has the VW/Audi p/n cast on the housing!

I always use Premium Thermostats, which are billed to fail open. Gates or Stant are my favorite brands.

i personally run a 90c/195f one, the GATES 33209. it gets cold here in WI and it will hold 192f on the highway with the heat at speed 1

I have an 06. Had the same issue. Bought a cheap thermostat which turned out to be no good but acted the same as the old thermostat. Then, I changed EVERYTHING else in the coolant system, lol. Switched to Gates, problem solved.

To complement this, the Gates thermostat I bought for a Mercedes M272 engine was identical to the Mercedes A2722000115, except that the Mercedes logo cast into the housing had been (mostly) ground down.

I tried a parts store Motorad, failed. Tried a Napa gold stat that turned out to be repackaged Motorad, failed.

we warrantied a Gates thermostat on a pentastar 3.6L three fkn times because the guy said it kept overheating going up hills. Originally replaced for P0128 thermostat code. Then we put an oem part in and it’s never overheated since.

Every 6-7 months the cheap garbage scam of a brand Motorrad remains to be the only available thermostat I can access. I do the temp gun test, I verify my sensors are correct. I burp the cooling system. Everything. I’ve gotten so good at the job now. Every brand of thermostat I’ve tried in Canada is a Reboxed Motorrad. Premium to Economy. 7$-25 they’re all the stupid same. Parts source, Gates , Napa , Autovalue , “mopar” from my dealer. All Motorrad at different prices. I know of 2 they make, the standard oe 195 which is usually economy line. And the fail safe one they make. Both have catastrophic failures, either get stuck open, spring blows apart. Usually after 6-7 months they stop working entirely or the thing slowly stops letting the Jeep get to temp and I dread reliving the Motorrad Groundhog Day effect. It’s a garbage thermostat. People have argued with me that they make OEM equivalent parts and they never have issues but I’ve had nothing but issues.

I had to replace mine again after 6 months.