Quote Originally Posted by luckyg817 View Post
Some have had bad luck with ect sensors being bad right out of the box. Do you have the torque app or something to scan the car with? If you do, you could cross reference what the gauge is reading vs what the scanner is reading and maybe you're just having a false reading on the gauge.
Could I have bad luck with two different ECT sensors? Maybe, but doesn't seem likely. My neighbor has the Torque App with the OBD reader that I can borrow for testing. However, when I have pulled coolant from the bleeder the temp usually reads same as what I see on the gauge.