I am pretty sure that my RS always came up to temperature pretty quickly and read 90 on the gauge.

I have noticed in the last few days its not reaching the 90 limit very often normally creaps up to around 60 - 70.

Can others please comment on their gauge readings.

I have noticed the fans are running at startup so I think its a sensor problem.

Booked in for service will get it checked but feedback will be useful.

John

John,

I cant be sure of the actual temperature reading on mine, but like yours it warms up fairly quickly, then the needle sits right in the centre of the guage and never moves, no matter how i drive it

As you say, could be a borked sensor.

mine always got up to 90 and stayed there.

Thanks guys, thats what I thought mine used to do dead vertical at 90, - I used to check it was there before excercising the turbo - when I explained to the service reception they said it was because it was cold today :confused: Started making me dis-believe my self, thiought I would mention it as it will probably be a sensor that they could order to save a 80 mile round trip - but I think it went on deaf ears and they wrote down problem with fan motor.

Moves to the dead middle (90C) pretty quickly and remains firmly there, even after a bit of poodling along on some welsh back roads.

Mine goes quickly to 90 and then sits there rock solid.

Yeh. 90, no more,no less

Originally posted by Quinten in this post

Moves to the dead middle (90C) pretty quickly and remains firmly there, even after a bit of poodling along on some welsh back roads.

It was when following you for the Sunday morning drive to Oulton that I noticed the gauge reading low whilst sitting at the ~70mph dual carragway limit:)

Had that with mine - was just the temperature sensor.

Rob.

Originally posted by stopan1j in this post

when I explained to the service reception they said it was because it was cold today

Pish. It was 2 deg C when I left the house this morning and got as low as -2 deg C on the way to work, after a few minutes warming up the gauge sat at 90 all the way ......

It might be the temperature sensor - as many have replied here.

Another possible cause is the thermostat. Modern ones are designed to fail "safe" (i.e. "open"), which would account for the symptoms you describe - slow warming up from cold.

John

My experience of this symptom is your thermostat is u/s as Mike says and it fails open. Any ideas about that Polo shirt?

Chris

Originally posted by chrish in this post

John

My experience of this symptom is your thermostat is u/s as Mike says and it fails open. Any ideas about that Polo shirt?

Chris

I think its a sensor as I noticed both fans are firing up from cold.

The motosport polo shirt I was wearing the w/e was not available when I was in CZ this summer as Jon stated I believe merchendise can be ordered from the German Skoda site and posted to UK. A Polo shirt is available as detailed at http://shop.skoda-auto.de/cgi-bin/SkodaShop.storefront/3f70b84b011d90c7271dac10052e0655/Product/View/MVF77&2D050&2D1 I my experience think that sizes are a bit small so a UK XL would be a XXL

My gauge does 0 to 90 in about 5 mins. Maybe I should have it Jabba'd