How Long?

[ponydust]

Morning

Having posted a thread yesterday about my tempreture gauge going up and down i was also wondering how long from cold your cars take to reach 'normal' (90). This morning mine took about 5 minutes or 2 miles. This seems to be very quick from standing overnight. Is this normal? I suppose it would take longer in the winter. It just with the other problem i have i didn't know if this was connected.

Thanks

 

[gazjones]

my ibiza 20vt takes about 5 mins on idle to warm full up

 

[DeanLC]

to confirm, you are talking about water temp right? if so then 5mins is about right. If you mean oil temp, then it should be more like 10mins.

 

[Dodson]

The water temp on mine has been flying up lately compared to the winter,but i put it down to it been 20c on a morning as apposed to -2 during the winter

 

[andycupra]

yes thats normal.

this is the water temperature reading and this gets to normal pretty quickly.

As said before however the oil does take longer.

 

[Copra]

if the gauge is going up and down though, that will be the sensor broken. cheap and easy to fix

 

[ponydust]

if the gauge is going up and down though, that will be the sensor broken. cheap and easy to fix[/QUOTE

Just ordered the 'Green top' one from Euro Car Parts

 

[Copra]

good lad

 

[RikH]

yeah it depends on outside conditions
on a nice sunny day like today your talking 5 minutes
on a freezing cold aberdonian snowy day ive known it get to town and back and still not be up there.

 

[NeilW]

Agreed. Took only a couple of minutes of "spirited" driving this morning to get the temperature up. Then again it is 25degs outside today (according to the 100% accurate temp gauge on the LCR!!).

 

[Icecavern]

Should take about 5 mins, but I've noticed Beckys TDI takes a lot longer to warm up than the R, with similar driving conditions.