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??

 

its normal, if its really hot outside the fan will run for about 5 minutes after the car is shut off

 

in that case, maybe I shouldnt have forced it off it is pretty hot today

 

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

 

When the car reaches operating temp, u dont have to rev it before shutting it off..

 

its normal...it happens to my car too. Just leave it be.

 

The dealer told me to do it

 

You can also check your Owner's Manual for stuff like this. As I recall, there's a paragraph in there that mentions this.

 

Owner's manual? What a concept!

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.

Ken

 

i live close to you (nj as well) days like this just let them run, it's not harming anything.

 

You beat me to it =(

 

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. =/

 

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.

 

My fan goes 10 minutes everyday.

 

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!

 

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.

 

Canadians have ones that are twice as thick!! It's in both English and French. I can barely fit anything else in the glove box

 

Not to hijack the thread, but if all the absurd legal disclaimers—some printed over and over and over—were eliminated, the owner's manual would be… about 17 pages.