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Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 10:26 am
by Chrisg1980
Now then fellas, just bought an 07 TDi and the radiator fans seem to be running constantly. Anyone got any ideas as to what it could be or had this fault themselves?

Cheers, Chris

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:04 am
by pounder770
I have had this problem before...
Has the outside temp.display gone too?
The wire to the sensor in the front bumper breaks...the engine then has no outside air temp,so that makes it activate the fans.
Common fault.

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 7:35 pm
by Chrisg1980
Hello mate, thanks for the reply. The temp gauge is working fine. Hmmmmmm, the plot thickens

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:08 pm
by Motosparkz
On a lot of vag stuff, if it has the control module bolted to the rad, these can fail. First thing is get it code read with live data to see what it thinks is going on. Do you know anyone with VCDS?

I am just looking at getting a maxi, so can't tell you any more than that unfortunately as not had a lot to do with them, yet!! :-)

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:21 pm
by pounder770
Outside temp... Not engine temp... Just to be clear :-)

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:27 pm
by Chrisg1980
Yeah the outside temp is defo working pal.

Will get the code read tomorrow and leave some results here

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:28 pm
by Chrisg1980
Got this sorted gents, its the Aircon Pressure Switch thats at fault. £30 fix and its all done.

Good news for anyone else with the same fault.

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:28 pm
by pounder770
Nice one!!

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:39 am
by phanson
Good info!

Re: Cooling fans on constantly

Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2015 6:28 pm
by Sturu
Thanks pounder770, yours worked for me!