Odd idiot light on this morning

[Frank Stadmeyer]

Hey, doesn't matter if it makes sense, doesn't matter if its right:

 "Vee haff told you, it's in der manual, und das ist das No more questions"

8-)

Frank

On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Danton J.A. Cardoso wrote:

> Shrinkage?!?!?! As in being in the pool, and the water was cold?  How
> in the hell can G2 shrink?  Then again in the fatherland they don't
> get minus temps.... but doesn't Audi do testing in Siberia or some
> place that it gets cold?  Funny thing about all this was, last year it
> didn't do such a thing and it was damn cold.  How does -15 sound
> without a windchill?  Nothing beats living in Northeastern Missouri.
> One day it can be in the minuses, the next 30 plus degrees.  That of
> course, the winter....
> 
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Frank Stadmeyer <stadmef at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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> Danton J.A. Cardoso