[MR2] A high speed cooling problem

[felix at crowfix.com]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:58:28AM -0700, William Brandt wrote:
> You say that the fan varies speed by moving the license plate. 
> 
> That makes no sense. 

Ah well, I didn't re-report the license plate story in full there.
When the license plate was pushed fully backwards and blocking airflow
into the fans, they speeded up.  Pull the license plate forward, they
calmed down.

I assume this is not the first time in 23 years that I ever parked so
as to push the license plate backwards, altho the ordinary parking
spot concrete bumper wouldn't be high enough to do the trick.  I think
if the mystery problem were not present, the fans would not have had
to rev up to compensate for the airflow blockage.  Heck, maybe it
wasn't a close park which pushed it back.  Maybe it happened during
the 60,000 mile checkup.  I still think it must have happened before
at least a few times, but if not, it still wasn't the cause of the
high speed overheating problem.

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