Q: Temperature gauge
Temp gauge reads over half way time to time but won't go past 219 degrees, never had an issue when the temp gauge jumps around, never ran at 203 the car under normal conditions ran about 210 but now I'm seeing that the car will reach 219 then the gauge will drop fast, trying to figure out if the temp sensor will cause this random jumping in reading, there is no leaks around the water pump and the coolant levels are ok
My car has 81000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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