No big deal -- I actually prefer it that way (fears about heat soak, etc) and the fan does come on when the motor is running anyway and at around the 90 mark and does turn itself off. But should it be so? It's an N reg Sporting. I'd always thought that they were wired so the power to the fan was cut when the ignition was cut.

Also, were all Cinq Sportings fitted with central locking? (If yes, I need to diagnose why mine doesn't work.)

All answers and offers of damaged repairable Sei Sporting front bumpers and Cinq sporting rears gratefully recieved!

I have an N reg sporting and my fan does come on sometimes when I turn the ignition off. I think they were all fitted with central locking, although I know they do have a lot of gremlins, Mine tends to lock/unlock when I turn the ignition on, and two beeps on the horn tends to unlock them.....dont ask lol

Think my cinqs stayed on when the ignition was off.

to be honest though, its a pointless idea, as the pump isn't circulating, and even if it was, the components would never get any hotter than they were at that point.

Kristian

The fan does stay on, particularly after a long drive. As for central locking, get door cards off and clean and WD40 all the contacts up

Thanks all -- I'll have a go at the central locking at the weekend. In the meantime, I washed the car and the screen washers no longer work! Another scrape the contacts and get busy with the WD, vasaline or silicon grease session, methinks!

My wire to the washer pumps had corroded when mine stopped functioning, had to have a rewire and insulated spade connector session!

if the pump still operates check they aren't blocked

or the non return valve hasnt failed.

mine will run for upto a minute after the car has been turned off if the temp has been high after a long drive. Quite embarassing when parking up at tesco coz the fan aint exactly quiet

Mine does it for about fifteen seconds after a long drive, but after just getting the headgasket fixed, this feels quite reassuring, even if in reality it does sod all lol.