Maybe its me but I dont know if this is normal...
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Maybe its me but I dont know if this is normal...
So I got my car about a month ago and still have under 1000 miles on it. I put on a good 150 today though just driving for the hell of it. I pull up and park....rev the engine a little and then shut it off like I'm supposed to. I walk around the car and I hear a fan blowing...I stop and turn around. I realize its my car. There is a fan still running as the car is totally shut off. I thought maybe I didnt shut it off and I was going mad but I got inside and everything was dead. The only way the fan would stop is by turning the car on and off again. I thought it was a fluke but when I got home, it happened again....is there something I missed or what??
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mine just started doing this too. and it wont shut off till I turn the ignition on
i got a 04 auto with 26xxx miles. I was going to take it to the dealership at the end of the week.
edit: man im a slow typer already got 2 replies ahead of me
i got a 04 auto with 26xxx miles. I was going to take it to the dealership at the end of the week.
edit: man im a slow typer already got 2 replies ahead of me
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But the paragraph that says the fan may run after you turn the car off says it will go for ten minutes.
Obviously, if it's running after shutting down, let it run.
FWIW, my '87 Accord did that, but my wife's '86 Accord never did. And every time my wife heard mine running she'd freak. No matter how many times I told her it was normal.
And she read her owner's manual cover to cover.
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They meant if you turn the car on and have to shut it off before it reaches the proper temp.
Like if you start it up, realize you left something important in your house and need your keys to get back in and have to turn the car off. You'd need to do the rev thing then. after you've drove it around for 5 minutes or so you should be fine to just turn it off without rev'ing...
They told me to do it too but were really vague on it. =/
Like if you start it up, realize you left something important in your house and need your keys to get back in and have to turn the car off. You'd need to do the rev thing then. after you've drove it around for 5 minutes or so you should be fine to just turn it off without rev'ing...
They told me to do it too but were really vague on it. =/
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Mine does it too, completely normal. Most often it will run for 5 minutes tops, but one really hot day last summer it ran a full 10 minutes.
I knew summer was officially here when she did it last week after I got home from work.
I knew summer was officially here when she did it last week after I got home from work.
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New Yorker hit it on the head. Total posts would drop precipitously if every owner read the manual first. BTW, it's been a while since my last new car- the RX-8 manual is like a phone book! Twice as thick as any other I've owned.
One fan sounds wimpy, but when the other kicks-in, you'll know. Sounds like an afterburner on a fighter jet!
One fan sounds wimpy, but when the other kicks-in, you'll know. Sounds like an afterburner on a fighter jet!
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normal. ANY of the suave people that tell you to go turn your ignition off then on again to get it to turn off are doing more harm then good. It's on for a reason, let it do it's job.
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New Yorker hit it on the head. Total posts would drop precipitously if every owner read the manual first. BTW, it's been a while since my last new car- the RX-8 manual is like a phone book! Twice as thick as any other I've owned.
One fan sounds wimpy, but when the other kicks-in, you'll know. Sounds like an afterburner on a fighter jet!
One fan sounds wimpy, but when the other kicks-in, you'll know. Sounds like an afterburner on a fighter jet!
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