Looks like motorad cooling products are taking over.

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I have had bad luck with motorad parts. Mostly thermostats. The lever flip caps are junk too. Went to the dealer a couple years ago and bought a thermostat. It was a motorad and failed after 2 weeks.

All the auto parts stores only carry motorad now. Special ordered a stant cap last week. Inside the stant box was a motorad cap.

Can't win!
 
I replaced the thermostat on my CTS and inside the AC Delco box was a Motorad. I almost decided to skip changing it as it was just a preventative maintence I was doing. Since the car has 190k miles I changed it because I figure there's equal changce of failure with the old and the new lol...
 
GMBoy said:
I replaced the thermostat on my CTS and inside the AC Delco box was a Motorad. I almost decided to skip changing it as it was just a preventative maintence I was doing. Since the car has 190k miles I changed it because I figure there's equal changce of failure with the old and the new lol...
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motorad is capable of supplying good products
 
Even when they were separate companies, both produced their share of duds. I once had to purchase four different Stant's for a single application to get one that worked. The first three were stuck closed.
 
Just bought a Gates radiator cap for my 2007 Ford Ranger, guess who makes Gates radiator caps......
So the name on the box raises the price for the motorad item inside??


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2007 FORD RANGER 3.0L V6 Radiator Cap | RockAuto

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MattPersman said:
I believe motorad bought stant so that’s why some are getting motorad in Stant boxes etc
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That’s what I read too. Sucks - I still can get quality aftermarket for Japanese/German imports(Aisin - reboxed Tama Thermostat, Mahle Behr, Borg-Warner Wahler) but you’re SOL now.

Last time I ordered an ACDelco rad cap, it was made in India by TVS.
 
vindex1963 said:
Just bought a Gates radiator cap for my 2007 Ford Ranger, guess who makes Gates radiator caps......
So the name on the box raises the price for the motorad item inside??


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2007 FORD RANGER 3.0L V6 Radiator Cap | RockAuto

RockAuto ships auto parts and body parts from over 300 manufacturers to customers' doors worldwide, all at warehouse prices. Easy to use parts catalog.
www.rockauto.com
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Used to be able to get a Motorcraft OE cap from RA. But I noticed it seems their selection of Motorcraft has been diminishing.
 
nthach said:
That’s what I read too. Sucks - I still can get quality aftermarket for Japanese/German imports(Aisin - reboxed Tama Thermostat, Mahle Behr, Borg-Warner Wahler) but you’re SOL now.

Last time I ordered an ACDelco rad cap, it was made in India by TVS.
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Wasn't TVS the OE supplier though? :unsure:

The Indian TVS is still OE and the same quality as OE.

TVS is still better than Motorad :D
 
In the past month:

I bought a Motorad thermostat for my 2002. It was defective, the car would overheat. Replaced with Motorcraft, all good.

I bought a NAPA Belkin radiator cap for my 2016 to get me by until a Mopar showed up. I didn't even want a Motorad on the vehicle for the 4 days until the oem showed up. In the Belkin box was a Motorad cap. 😐

Lots of complaints, the parts are blatantly flimsier than better quality parts.
 
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