Posted by another member in a thread about 1.2 TSI's & pinched.    To save members and others having to pay to get information they should get free because they paid to buy a car.

I will ask a Mod to pin this in the Mk3 Fabia section. 

 

Personally,

i am not so sure about the Temperatures given, like from 18*oC.

Cold starts and the need to get things up to temperature apply to actual temperatures much colder than where the car has sat 6 hours and the coolant is at 18*oC to 33*oC.

 

Is there some error in the figures????

 

 

 

Edited 21 May, 20224 yr by roottoot

I have noticed this on my Fabia.

As they say not so noticeable when it IS cold.

 

The first time you start driving the car there is a slight hesitancy.

Never bothered me.

 

Thanks, AG Falco

 

I had this occur the other day and the car was only sat for 3 hours, I think the numbers they quoted were just from a customer complaint and they've went with that.

 

Providing the car has been started that day at some point, if it has been parked for ~3hours+ I will always get this.

 

I had this today with an outside ambient of +15C, but car had been parked in the garage after being warmed up, for roughly 3 hours, all I noticed was an initial increase in idle RPM - no rough etc running at all.

Why does it need such specific conditions? Our 2.0 TSI GTI always does a cold start after standing cold for a few hours, that's during warmer weather as well.

They just make it up as they go along.

There are specific conditions and it is not that guff that Dealership employees are supposed to spout to owners. 

Think I've commented on this subject before but this is definitely a thing on my 4 cyl 16V 1.2TSI. I did ask the dealer about it as I thought the plugs were knackered etc but they said it was normal without explaining further.

 

 

Observed this before indeed. Did not bother me that much, but i was curious if this was only my car or this was a regular thing... My car is parked in a garage nowadays, and this is indeed more prevalent then when i parked it on the street the last few years.

23 hours ago, M035 said:

more prevalent then when i parked it on the street the last few years

To me it is temperature related.

Thanks. AG Falco