The wife took her 170 sport to the dealer yesterday as it has a lazy stat, now the temp has dropped the car really struggles to get warm, plus it just about reaches 90 on the motorway, but as soon as you slow down the temp drops, I had the same issue on my 1.9 A4, chanee the stat on that and it's like a rock now, glued to 90 no matter what I do with the in car heater..
So booked the wife's in via the telephone booking service at my local garage, Chilwell seat, the wife dropped it off and explained exactly the issue. When she went to pick it up they told her there was no issue and its a feature of the engine that it cools down..... So I paid a visit and politely told them the same as the wife did and explained where I worked etc.. And the car is now booked in for a new stat on Thursday.
The garage said it was the first they had heard of this problem, so can others check their cars and if needed report the issue to seat for a new stat, the main issue is slow to come up to temp, and once up to temp if you put the heater of full you can drag the temp back down to 70 deg or so.
Karl
So booked the wife's in via the telephone booking service at my local garage, Chilwell seat, the wife dropped it off and explained exactly the issue. When she went to pick it up they told her there was no issue and its a feature of the engine that it cools down..... So I paid a visit and politely told them the same as the wife did and explained where I worked etc.. And the car is now booked in for a new stat on Thursday.
The garage said it was the first they had heard of this problem, so can others check their cars and if needed report the issue to seat for a new stat, the main issue is slow to come up to temp, and once up to temp if you put the heater of full you can drag the temp back down to 70 deg or so.
Karl