P.s it has to be the anodizing or the actual plate this is the 3rd message I have read with this not getting over 50 degrees and we all have the csp angled plate Thanks for the reply I removed the paint from around the sender on the sump plate and managed to get the oil strainer on on by just pushing the middle of the oil strainer in a little then fitted a extra washer on the plug/sender and it fitted OK...i will report back if after 2 year the bloody thing goes above 50 degrees ha
It should do, until you find the sender and the gauge are from an incompatible VDO pairing of gauge and sender.
Iys definitely not that buddy I got them as a set and have changed both over the years basically tried every thing you can imagine but am convinced it's the sump plate but to be fair I never scraped the paint of so may have just been that also but the steel one is now so we will see ha
Just check the resistance from the outside metal of the sender to the engine case whatever you do. If its zero ohms, the problem is not the fitting of the sender to the cover or the cover to the engine, but something else.
