Hi All,

I have a new FL Octavia CR Diesel VRS 59 plate. Only picked in up Friday. I got home this evening after driving it pretty hard home (20 Miles plus averaging over 100 all way home - It is new I have to try it... ) and I noticed immediately after turning the ignition off that the fans stayed on and were really noisey. I got out of the car and they were really loud. I wondered if they would take a while to cool the engine after giving it a decent drive so left it. I went out 5 minutes later and the fans were still working. This doesn't seem right at all. I started the car back up and turned it straight off again and the fans ceased working.

The car has 2 1/2 years warranty left so I'm tempted to drop it straight back at the dealers but wanted to check if others thought this was a fault or if this is normal after giving the car a hard run.

Any advice?

Edited 1 June, 201016 yr by KungfooVRS

Well done.....

Well done.....

Thanks.... :wonder:

Anything more constructive to advise?

It's a thermostatic fan and will keep on running even after the ignition is turned off, I would expect it to run on after driving that hard. My Yeti runs on sometimes and my Octavia 2.0 tdi vrs used to do it, it's normal.

It's a thermostatic fan and will keep on running even after the ignition is turned off, I would expect it to run on after driving that hard. My Yeti runs on sometimes and my Octavia 2.0 tdi vrs used to do it, it's normal.

That's reassuring - cheers. It did seem to be running loud for a long time (as I say I left it for around 5 minutes) before checking again. One question though how comes when I turned the car back on then off immediately if turned off?

Thermostat may have been in a pocket of warm water. When you started it you would have moved the water around. The coller water in the radiator would have then moved around the engine making it cooler and hence cooling the thermostat, thus stopping the fans.

Hi All,

I have a new FL Octavia CR Diesel VRS 59 plate. Only picked in up Friday. I got home this evening after driving it pretty hard home (20 Miles plus averaging over 100 all way home - It is new I have to try it... ) and I noticed immediately after turning the ignition off that the fans stayed on and were really noisey. I got out of the car and they were really loud. I wondered if they would take a while to cool the engine after giving it a decent drive so left it. I went out 5 minutes later and the fans were still working. This doesn't seem right at all. I started the car back up and turned it straight off again and the fans ceased working.

The car has 2 1/2 years warranty left so I'm tempted to drop it straight back at the dealers but wanted to check if others thought this was a fault or if this is normal after giving the car a hard run.

Any advice?

averaging over 100

I assume that this is mpg and not just wishful thinking on your behalf.

averaging over 100

I assume that this is mpg and not just wishful thinking on your behalf.

ha - I'm fortunate to live just off a brand new dual carriage way that has light traffic after 7pm. Great road and perfect for putting foot down.

ha - I'm fortunate to live just off a brand new dual carriage way that has light traffic after 7pm. Great road and perfect for putting foot down.

Must say if you are "fortunate" then I'm most certainly "unfortunate".

Hahahahaha..........averaging over 100mph on the 20mile journey home..........in your dreams

BTW the fans will stay on to cool it down

If i were you and you dont want the turbo not to **** its guts out in the near future i'd think about driving off boost as much as possible for the last couple of miles to reduce temps and not to leave the turbo spinning with little or no oil supply when you switch off the engine

I have the same model (59 reg, CR VRS)

Mine does the same thing sometimes ... even after a few steady mile winding down at the end of a journey.

In fact it did this on Sunday, and it took 10 minutes for the fan to turn off after switching the engine off.

I posted a topic when my car first did this back in December when the outside temperature was close to freezing, and the consensus was not to worry about it, it's normal.