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So I've been driving my JCW for a few weeks...
...after taking it to the mothership for its first service, what's strange is that when I park the car after driving it (not spirited) and shut it down. The car is totally silent. A couple of minutes later, a fan noise kicks on. It is literally minutes, not seconds as one would think would happen.
Now, I've had the fan "on" after parking it, which is a non event but to shut the car off, not hear any fans...then a few minutes later the fans come on. This didn't happen before I took it in. Now, all of a sudden after the dealership visit, its happening. What gives? Is everyone's JCW doing this? Mine is a July 08 build. This sort of got me thinging about something. Since I bought the car and I'm paying the bills and its legally mine, shouldn't I have the right to know exactly what they did to the car down to the last parameter they set/reset via the computer? Am I within my rights to request and receive the information from the dealership? So now my fan comes on when it didn't before. Does that mean someone made a mistake or have I been driving around for a year and my <insert component here> has lost some life because the fans didn't come on when they were supposed to? |
my jcw does the same thing,i would not worry about it.
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It could be just the water pump cooling the turbo down, and once the water temp reaches a certain temp the fan kicks in.
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Could be that while moving, things didn't get hot enough. When you stop and there is a bit of time for the heat soak to spread, maybe then it becomes hot enough that the water pump and the fan need to run.
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MY 08 MCS does the same thing. I agree its probably the car cooling the turbo down.
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