I reckon it's far too early to condemn the in-line system because of a single failure of the original stat still in place. There must now be hundreds, maybe more, of diesels running around quite happily with the in-line mod. Of course if several reports like this start coming up, then things will look different.
Bear in mind, there have been at least two, maybe three reports of the latest OEM type stat ('the version 3') failing in a manner similar to the 'version 2'. Mike's still runs happily with the oldest version 1, I believe. (??)
TC
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