Odd idiot light on this morning

[Frank Stadmeyer]

It probably is cold related. This drove me nuts for a couple of winters. Turns out the latest (maybe all?) VAG coolants have a tendency to "shrink" in cold weather. This combined with some possible minor normal coolant loss over the year is enough to set off the low coolant warning light when the temperatures drop significantly. I believe it's in the manual (I don't think it just appeared to me in a dream but who knows at my age.)

Frank
On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Tihol Tiholov wrote:

>> 
>> 
>> ...  The coolant temperature light and chime kicked on.
>> Shut down the engine, and started it again, no light or chime.
>> 
>> Random fluke?
> 
> 
> Likely, cold related.  Can check the coolant level, just in case.
> Both my VAG, non-Audi products '99 and '00 bugs) lighted up the blinking red
> coolant warnings.  The 1.8T wanted a couple oz. of coolant, the 2.0 lacked
> nothing.  Temp. was -21 C in the first case and -31 C in the second.
> Haven't RTFM yet, too BRRRRRRR! for that.
> Both hatch shox suddenly died without a warning but ... after almost 300K
> kms ...
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