Fan noise once car is turned off??
 

Temps finally reached in the 90s today. When I got back from a spirited drive, I shut the car off and as I'm walking away, I heard a fan noise coming from the engine. Is this a cooling mechanism? What's going on?

Perfectly normal!

It will automaticly shut off when the coolant temp drops below a specific temp.


Even most VW's even have an secondary electric water pump that even circulates coolant after the car is shut down! So do not worry . It will shut off after a few minutes.

Your radiator fan is running. It will run after the car shuts down if the engine temperature is high enough. It is perfectly normal.

yeh , mine goes off all the time in this weather...hmmmmm wonder what would happen if I lowered the thermostat rating,if it has one??? anyone know by the way :o

This is normal is high temps.. car is trying to cool off

I liken it to her "panting" after a good run on a hot day. ;)

i like that analogy. :D

This freaked me out too the first time.

I read the manual and knew it would do this but after 3 months in south Florida I never heard it. Then suddenly one day last week, of course right after I get the car back from the dealership for my first oil change, it happened.

I turned off the car, got out and thought, "Oh crap I left the keys in the ignition and forgot to turn off the car!", then realized I had the keys in my hand.... scratched my head a bit till I remembered that little paragraph in the manual.

It did it again about 2 days later as I got home and pulled into the garage.

So over 3 months, of daily driving the car in Florida's sun to only kick on twice seems somewhat odd... but hey if it's running cool then I'm not going to complain :)

Yea, my fan came on a few times last summer. I did RTFM, but didn't remember that part... so the first time it scared me and I ran inside and searched the forum, and... aha! Perfectly Normal ;)

It is very unsettling though to walk away from the car with something running like that, lol.

add 1 more thread to the growing list of "fan noise after car is off"..............

'Tis the season for it ;)

yep, soon we all shall be flooded with the "air conditioner seems to blow warm air" threads.

My A/C does seem a little weak.

Gas smell after hard acceleration, you guys have it?

read teh manual or search next time