My 2015 Octavia 2.0 diesel takes up to 9 miles to hit 90 DegC, it is particularly bad with low ambient temperatures.

Is mine unusual and potentially has a dodgy thermostat or do they all take this sort of miles to reach the operating temperature?

 

Paul

My 2015 Octavia 2.0 diesel takes up to 9 miles to hit 90 DegC, it is particularly bad with low ambient temperatures.

Is mine unusual and potentially has a dodgy thermostat or do they all take this sort of miles to reach the operating temperature?

 

Paul

It's normal in winter. How about this? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HEKO-Winterblende-fur-Frontgrill-Grillblende-SKODA-OCTAVIA-II-2007-2013-/331408644744?hash=item4d297e9a88:g:Le4AAOSw14xWMd3e

It depends how it's been driven for those 9 miles, at low speeds or though town with the heater on its not beyond the realms of possibility that it could take 9 miles to heat up.

From leaving work I do a mile of A roads and about 5 miles on the motorway going steady and it's only just got to 90

In terms of diesels, these new engines are light years away in terms of development. In winter diesels used to be a nightmare and especially when your car heater depended on the engine to blow out warm air. You'd be freezing for a good half hour in winter. To be fair, some petrols would be taking nearly 9 miles to reach optimum temp in winter. Nothing to worry about at all.

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Just as my old Mondeo. It took ages to get it warm if I drove with the Webasto turned off.

That is one of the reasons I went for petrol this time. It gets warm in a matter of minutes.

Nothing unusual, with the current temperatures at or below zero, it takes mine at least four or five miles to get halfway to the 90 Deg mark.

At least the O3 blows warm air through the vents before the engine temp gauge starts moving, my O2 seemed to take an age before warm air came out of the vents

Same problem.

Same problem.

Only it's not technically a problem. It's actually decent and as Andyvee says, with the O3, the heating is independent of the engine temp, so it's even better in that regard.

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Really annoying if you want to trash it in winter 10 km drive and its nowhere near the 90 degree mark, unless you get on the highway.

Yep, mines the same, takes up to 10 miles on my commute (15 miles of A roads only, average speed of 40mph), to get to 90°C on the gauge and something like 70-80° oil temperature.

 

But the heaters work quickly, I have heated seats and the MPG figures are still very good so I can't complain

 with the O3, the heating is independent of the engine temp

 

How does that work ? I also noticed the warm air long before the engine warms up compared to the O2 (it's great!). I thought it was just a slow thermometer dial.

How does that work ? I also noticed the warm air long before the engine warms up compared to the O2 (it's great!). I thought it was just a slow thermometer dial.

It effectively has two circuits for the coolant flow.

One is the normal one that circulates coolant throughout the whole the engine as norm and then through the radiator to cool etc.

The other, smaller and seperate one, circulates coolant through only (I think) the exhaust manifold and turbo (which warm up very quickly) and then through the heater matrix which provides warm air in the cab. It does this until the temerature is sufficiantly hot.

As soon as the engine (coolant throughout the system) temp is up to normal the thermostat opens and coolant then flows throughout the rest of the engine as normal.

My O3 2.0TDI is the same, my 2005 525d BMW was also similar.

 

It's not clever, if it's not up to temperature DPF regenerations will not start. Even doing 10 mile journeys, the car will not complete a regeneration cycle.

 

I saw a genuine blanking front panel on a Czech skoda parts site where I bought my mudguards from but I can't remember or find the site!!!

 

Found them, two separate covers, I don't know of the radar in the lower grille would be affected though. . .

 

http://www.superskoda.com/Skoda/OCTAVIA-III/Octavia-III-RS-winter-grille-cover-in-great-OEM-design-for-the-front-bumper-KI-R

 

 

http://www.superskoda.com/scripts/hledej.php?rz=1&retezec=octavia+iii+winter&x=0&y=0

Edited 20 January, 201610 yr by e301988325i

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How about driving in a lower gear until it has warmed up? (I am not saying 3rd gear @60mph!)  What with all these gear ratios now, engines are barely turning over! More revs, more fuel, more heat being generated?

 

The engine is on its warm-up cycle anyhow so I can't imagine the extra bit of fuel use is major.

Get a 1.4 TSi !!!

Mine seems to warm up in about 90 seconds - lovely to get that warm air blowing onto your hands so quickly!

My old Mk 1 vRS used to take an age to warm up. No surprise, though; cast iron block, using very little fuel, cold air flow and not much heat being generated. Can't have it both ways.

My 1.2 TSI 110 is much more human friendly on cold mornings.

Checked mine today from a cold start, outside temperature +1c. All A and B road driving, it took 5 miles to get the temp gauge to 90 degrees. Car is a 64 plate Octavia VRS.

Same here  - nothing unusual. Although the engines not up to temperature the blowers still blow hot very quickly and it is a comfortable journey to work....the heated seats do come in handy aswell.

 

With the nighmare traffic around me there is no chance of being able to get the car above 50mph in the mornings anyway so wouldn't be thrashing it. 

It's a lot better than the tractor which it desend from

Haven't checked miles but going by time since start I'm toasty warm by 8 minutes into my drive (1.6 tdi)

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I timed mine on the way home. It came up to temperature quicker than I was expecting. 3km, or 11 minutes in traffic to get up to 90 deg. Ambient was 5.5 degrees so not too cold to start with. There was warm air coming from the vents in under 3 minutes though.