cooling problem
It is really hard to identify a cooling sytem fault from a couple of sentences in a forum. But if the car was running cool before the split hose problem it would indicate something happened when the hose went. 1. Are you loosing coolant or is the level staying normal. 2. When you took out the thermostat did you have the radiator and block reverse flushed at a radiator repair shop. 3. Are you getting a build up of crud in the coolant. The problem if no1 is happening is either a blocked radiator(water getting pushed into top tank faster than it is comming out the bottom) this causes a build up in the top section and will either go out the overflow or blow a top mounted hose on the engine. If you did no2 the water comming out during the reverse flush would show if there is any crud in the system usually from people not using/changing inhibitor.No3 if there is a build up up creamy froth in the overflow tank could indicate a blown head gasket, you really don't want that one, but tdi are very easy to cook.
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