GillySmiff

“Fan”

Thank you all your comments, I did realise that my old Skoda didn’t have a DPF fitted but clearly after reading various things about them and the comments on here I didn’t realise it was such an issue. I’ll take is for a long pipe opener and hopefully that will help! The fun runs for five minutes.

Thanks but I did have an diesel Octavia before which I did 100k miles in, did exactly the same job with short miles with occasional long mileage and it was perfectly fine! An older model granted but surely this newer model should be capable of doing a similar job without the fan coming on after every switch off?!

Thank you, I didn’t think it was right coming on all the time. It’s done 52300 and I live in Oxfordshire Long Hanborough. I am a dog walker so I use the car locally on short runs picking up dogs, although last week did two long runs with it so that should have cleaned out anything lurking. I know short runs probably aren’t great but I bought it for it’s space inside and being economical. I had an older Octavia before 2009 plate and it was a brilliant car, hence buying a newer one. When I took it back to the garage a week after I purchased it they did check for any fault codes and couldn’t find anything and a air conditioning specialist looked at it and couldn’t find anything wrong. It did settle after driving it around a bit more but in the last few days it’s started up again now with every switch off, it’s as loud as when I park up at night in my quiet road, I can’t think I’m very popular currently! 🥴

Thank you, I did read that post before I posted but was also wondering why my fan comes on every time I switch off my engine, surely that shouldn’t happen?

Hello, I purchased a 2017 Octavia diesel estate 1.6 two months ago. It went back the garage within the first week of owning it because it smelt of burning and the fan staying on every time I switched off. I thought it was the DPF regen after doing some research which they confirmed it was but the fan staying on after every switch off was for one, annoying and two why was is it doing it? They thought it was the air conditioning unit fan coming on to cool it down. The thing is the fan comes on even if the air conditioning hasn’t been switched on?! So wondering if anyone else’s does this, is it normal/ok? Thanks 😊