Hello everyone.
(2014 1.2L petrol Lounge model with AC, 47.000 kms)
Lately my ventilator fan has been starting sooner and works much more time than normal. On a normal trip on normal roads (it's winter here) at normal speeds and low RPMs or in the city the fan starts working and is on like 90% of the time. Before this problem it very rarely started. Also, there's a low, rumbling sound that accompanies it, but it does not come from the fan itself as I found out after replacing it (!). I can even feel this vibration that comes when the fan is working when driving, which is unheard of. Normally, you can hear it when you're idle, but not when driving.
To add more mistery to this, after a while of the fan starting (like 15 minutes or more, there's some fogging accumulation on the inside of the windshield, but only on the driver's side, and there's a strange smell, like an AC smell, or some chemical smell. All my climatization system is off. I have to open the windows, because if I turn the cabin fan air on, the smell gets more intense.
Mechanic told me it was probably the ventilator and ignored what I said about the fogging and replaced the fan (because it seemed to be a bit warped).
Yesterday I picked up the car and got on my way, and the same thing happened. Turns out it wasn´t the fan after all. Turns out he didn't test the car after replacing the fan...
During a traffic jam when I was testing the car yesterday, the engine temp rose one more notch than half, which I had never seen (and it's winter here). Keep in mind that I was careful and kept the car at low revs...
This is really mid-boggling to me because the engine temps seem to rise faster, making the fan start, and this creates a low, rumbling noise, and this also creates fogging (driver's side) and a strange smell on the inside of the car. Also, engine temps seems higher, because I can only imagine how this would be in the summer...
I'm taking it again to the mechanic Monday, but I´m posting here to see if I'm lucky and someone has any clues.
I'm going to try and check radiator coolant levels now.
Thanks for reading.
(2014 1.2L petrol Lounge model with AC, 47.000 kms)
Lately my ventilator fan has been starting sooner and works much more time than normal. On a normal trip on normal roads (it's winter here) at normal speeds and low RPMs or in the city the fan starts working and is on like 90% of the time. Before this problem it very rarely started. Also, there's a low, rumbling sound that accompanies it, but it does not come from the fan itself as I found out after replacing it (!). I can even feel this vibration that comes when the fan is working when driving, which is unheard of. Normally, you can hear it when you're idle, but not when driving.
To add more mistery to this, after a while of the fan starting (like 15 minutes or more, there's some fogging accumulation on the inside of the windshield, but only on the driver's side, and there's a strange smell, like an AC smell, or some chemical smell. All my climatization system is off. I have to open the windows, because if I turn the cabin fan air on, the smell gets more intense.
Mechanic told me it was probably the ventilator and ignored what I said about the fogging and replaced the fan (because it seemed to be a bit warped).
Yesterday I picked up the car and got on my way, and the same thing happened. Turns out it wasn´t the fan after all. Turns out he didn't test the car after replacing the fan...
During a traffic jam when I was testing the car yesterday, the engine temp rose one more notch than half, which I had never seen (and it's winter here). Keep in mind that I was careful and kept the car at low revs...
This is really mid-boggling to me because the engine temps seem to rise faster, making the fan start, and this creates a low, rumbling noise, and this also creates fogging (driver's side) and a strange smell on the inside of the car. Also, engine temps seems higher, because I can only imagine how this would be in the summer...
I'm taking it again to the mechanic Monday, but I´m posting here to see if I'm lucky and someone has any clues.
I'm going to try and check radiator coolant levels now.
Thanks for reading.