Ok during the cold snap the temp warning light comes on first thing after start up, goes off after restarting, repeats it a couple of times

behaves fine the rest of the day, its only on start up first thing when its been really cold

Coolant level is fine, did it last year and was advised it was a software fault which they fixed at dealers no seems to be recuring

car is a VRS special edition 2007

anyone else experienced this or got any clues?

seems to be sensor fault rather than anything more serious (i hope) :'( , will get dealers to look at it next service in less than 1000 miles but its a pain in the **se!

What does the temp guage do? Is it staying at cold whilst the warning is up or is it rising?

Ok during the cold snap the temp warning light comes on first thing after start up, goes off after restarting, repeats it a couple of times

behaves fine the rest of the day, its only on start up first thing when its been really cold

Coolant level is fine, did it last year and was advised it was a software fault which they fixed at dealers no seems to be recuring

car is a VRS special edition 2007

anyone else experienced this or got any clues?

seems to be sensor fault rather than anything more serious (i hope) :'( , will get dealers to look at it next service in less than 1000 miles but its a pain in the **se!

Hi There,

We had the same issue with ours, assuming your coolant level is correct then it will be the sender unit held within the main coolant reservoir, we replaced ours and it wasn't mad money to be fair.

Hope this helps

Regards

Mac

If the coolant level is fine and it does this when you start from cold on a cold morning, it will be the sensor in the coolant expansion bottle. Simple cheap fix - just get a new expansion bottle. They're about £15 and don't take long to change.

My SE has been doing exactly same thing, coolant level is OK.

Will try replacing expansion tank then.

Cheers for advice

Rob

skoda gave me a 2010 fabia 1.2 as a courtesy car and the blue light was on i asked the service people if it was ok they said that this is normal it will go out in a while and it did bill

Hi thaks guys

assumed it was just a sensor but wanted to check i was ok putting it off for the service

once its warm or on sedon start of the day its ok, its only when its stood and really cold

skoda gave me a 2010 fabia 1.2 as a courtesy car and the blue light was on i asked the service people if it was ok they said that this is normal it will go out in a while and it did bill

That's on a new shape fabia though - they don't have a temperature gauge, so they have a blue light on the dash until the engine warms up.

mines done the same aswell added the tinyest amount of coolant to it and it went away, even the the coolant was near exactly on the marker to start with.