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  • While you’re effectively right in your comparison, you also must understand the difference between electronic data center cooling vs vehicle engine cooling.

    Vehicle engines run best at a higher temperature range than electronics, so they install a thermostat, to literally bring the engine temperature up to a suitable range for ideal performance. But the thermostat is not necessary (unless you live near cold polar regions and want heat).

    The thermostat can be safely removed from vehicles in more comfortable climates and the vehicle will run just fine, but just quite a bit cooler.

    So, take the concept of a closed loop cooling system, remove the thermostat from the equation, and you got a more viable closed loop system more suitable to keep electronics cool.







  • Yeah I know my post is about 3 weeks old, just skimming through my semi-recent posts.

    Anyways, they probably make that stuff ridiculously difficult to replace, especially since it also displays the odometer reading. Its probably all tied together and legally needs to be reprogrammed by the manufacturer, so as to verify nobody has tampered with the mileage.

    And it’s probably tied to the VIN number as well.