Q: Thermostat location.

asked by on October 22, 2016

Cannot locate thermostat. Looked online and followed instructions but after removing rad hose there was nothing. Is it on the driver side or passenger side, if I'm standing in front of the car that is? I removed the passenger side rad hose.

My car has 143000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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