Date:         Sat, 30 Mar 2002 20:34:32 -0800
Reply-To:     Tom Salicos <TomSalicos@ATTBI.COM>
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From:         Tom Salicos <TomSalicos@ATTBI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Questions from a Vanagon Newbie
Comments: To: Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
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> 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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