Thermostat is broken or someone changed non-original thermostat.
Those do not work.
Only working (which is also oem) spare part is Motorad Cold climate zone thermostat 5461-82K.
Other does not work. Tested 10+ thermostat on here skandinavia.
I've always run a motorrad with the relief valve in mine. Works great
motorad from rockauto is doing me good so far
MOTORAD 7416203 with 203 temp is good.
I remembered the old thermostat looking like it did, so I waited a few hours to let the engine cool down then swapped the new thermostat for the old one, turned the engine on and no overheating. I've been driving the car as it is for a while now without any problems other than I can't drive long-distance without it running too hot (ex. I drove 4 hours a couple times a year traveling for college, and in the summer the car sometimes would overheat by the time I got to my destination).
If your thermostat is from Nappa and says Motorad on it. Then replace it immediately. They are junk and stick closed.
I noticed mine is a "motorad" and it's the cheapest shittiest one and it's been giving me problems.
I had the same issues, less than 4 moths, this brand doesn't work.
I did notice before I recently got safety/emission test for plate renewal, i wanted to confirm the I/M readiness had ran, that at idle, the full trims were extremely rich. I'm leaning towards the lower tstat having something to do with that. I have a 195 motorad(blah) that i had just installed before the plenum work. ECT didn't break 178 degrees on a highway cruise at 95+ degrees. That seems to be right at the threshold for the current dtc.
I had issues with the MotoRad that every parts store in Canada seems to sell
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