> My question is... When the car is off, and the front fan goes on, and often > stays on (in my '91 Golf it will stay on for 15 minutes sometimes) what is > this actually doing?? I thought this was the case of uncooled water in the radiator heating the fan switch back up after the air stops flowing over it. So it stays on until the water in the radiator (and the switch) cools back down. I didn't think it was designed to do this, just does it. Tom Salicos |
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