Just thinking out loud here. We all know that heat kills these CVT's with temperatures above 90C / 194F. Since the Mirage stock thermostat temp is 192F or 88C and the transmission is cooled by the a heat exchanger with the engine coolant it's a pretty reasonable assumption that our little cars CVT fluid temp spend a lot of time above 90C / 194F which reflects in the CVT fluid degradation values shown in the previous post. Which made me think why haven't we all put 180F / 82C coolant thermostats in so the CVT fluid never gets hot enough to degrade? Just wanted to put it out there before the thought left my leaky brain lol.
Motorad 2040192 is the OEM thermostat
Motorad 2040180 is the 180F thermostat
Last edited by inuvik; 10-07-2020 at 10:33 PM.
Reason: additonal info
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