Re: Scirocco 2 Radiator Fan Switch

[Paul Dimitre <czarpaul@ockham.stanford.edu>]

At 12:28 PM 10/2/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I have to sell my car (sad, cry, boohoo) for business reasons but it's just
developed a problem
>with the radiator fan.
>
>The fan comes on at the highest speed and stays on.
>If I unplug and then reconnect the connector on the back of the fan after
it's been running for awhile, 
>the fan does stop. When it restarts, the same process occurs.
>
>I know that with the A1 cars the temperature switch is a simple one located
at the bottom of the 
>radiator, However, as the fan stops spinning when I disconnect and
reconnect it, I  presume something 
>seems to be resetting. 
>
>Is there a relay of some sort that might have gone bad rather than the simple 
>temperature switch at the bottom of the radiator?
>
>Thanks for any help you folks can provide.
>

This happened to my Scirocco II with the first stage. The shop I brought it
to said it was a short, and the easiest (and least expensive by far) option
was to disconnect the first stage of the fan. The second stage still works.
I just realized that this is probably of no help for a problem with the
second stage.

-czarpaul

"You're not late if you don't go."

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