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Offline mike.

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #10 on: 26 November 2010, 13:06 »
My MKV GTI was the same, last winter when the temperatures were -5 and below the car never warmed up on my journey to work, about 30 miles.

I logged it in VCDS and it seemed to get to 70 quickly enough, then the thermostat seemed to open and the temperature went down again before eventually crawling back up to 90.
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Offline Lap

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #11 on: 26 November 2010, 17:36 »
Thanks for all the replies. I will check the coolant and tell the Missus to turn off the heating. She'll probably ignore me on the latter point  :grin: 

From the responses, it would appear to be the norm although I can't believe it is 'right'. Given that emissions and green issues are always hot topics, I find it unbelievable that a modern car like the mk5 can take so long to warm up and presumably belches out lots more nasty stuff until it has reached operating temperature!  :undecided:

Can't seem to find much stuff about it on the Internet though. In fact, can't even find somebody who sells the thermostat assuming it has one.
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Offline Chris MKV

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #12 on: 26 November 2010, 19:11 »
My pirrelli is normally warm (90) on the gauge after 3 miles. In the cold it might be 5 but 30! That's mental.

There is something wrong there! I don't think it is a slow car to warm up at all.
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Offline arletty69

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #13 on: 26 November 2010, 19:37 »
Warmup time also very dependant on driving conditions - speed and road inclination.
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Offline rudy

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #14 on: 27 November 2010, 17:44 »
i know loads people with mk 5 ,  there all the same , mk 4  , were the same as well , why i dont know , maybe someone from vw might have the answer ,
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Offline iwilkins

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #15 on: 27 November 2010, 19:45 »
Mine seems to warm up within 5 minutes of driving.  To be honest for the first 5 mins i plod along on purpose to let it warm up.

If it was 30 minutes i don't think i'd have the patience :tongue:.  Maybe it's a faulty temp sensor ?
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Offline Lap

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #16 on: 27 November 2010, 22:03 »
Hmmmm this is just getting confusing now. Maybe it only affects the early GTI's? Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the Pirelli edition is much newer?

Bet somebody now replies with with an early GTI that warms up in 5 mins too!
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Offline Live in Hope

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #17 on: 01 December 2010, 11:13 »
Can i throw in that i have a 2.0 tdi Touran sport with aux heater and i to am still freezing after 30 mins :sad: i asked a dealer to check aux out when it had a new turbo fitted about 8 months ago and was told no faults showing? i have seen people saying about checking the fuses, any idea what number fuse?
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Offline marty341

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #18 on: 01 December 2010, 14:17 »
Quote from: Chris MKV on 26 November 2010, 19:11
My pirrelli is normally warm (90) on the gauge after 3 miles. In the cold it might be 5 but 30! That's mental.

There is something wrong there! I don't think it is a slow car to warm up at all.

Ditto  :smiley:
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Offline Live in Hope

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Re: Engine warm up time.
« Reply #19 on: 14 December 2010, 23:13 »
Right don't know if you guy's have auxilery heaters like my touran but had it checked today, and it turns out the electric pump that feeds coolant to the aux heater is dead! the aux heater fires up an cuts out after a few seconds as the temp switch in aux smashes past 100 degrees  :sad: so new part £111.98 and front bumper off to fit :cry:
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