Cooling fan check?

[andrewrx7]

Is there any way on tricking the fans into coming on to check that they work?

Can honestly say, that in the time I\'ve had the car, I haven\'t heard the coolings fans start up. Was wandering if there was a way to trick the ecu into thinking the car was hot and so start the fans?

The car is a later spec 7, which supposedly has a bigger rad for improved cooling (?). When I park up in the garage, there is alot of heat coming off of it, exp with the bonnet up (yes, I do drive it slowly to cool down before sticking it into the garage). I guess it could be more efficient at cooling, and simply hasn\'t reached the trigger point, but would like to test it anyway!

Cheers!

[scooby_si]

er dunno about tricks but mine will always come on if you\'ve been for a drive (water temps ~85+ under normal conditions) then turn off engine but leave ignition on after a couple of minutes of no air flow & heat soak water temps go well over 90 & usually over 100 before the fans start to bring the reading down. Basically go for reasonable drive turn off car for say 1 minute then turn ignition but not start engine & i imagine the fans should kick in.....at least as a theory of mine but not fool proof i guess presuming you dont have a proper read out of water temp? http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008_ZNxdm46052GB\' target=\'_blank\'>http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_12.gif\' border=0>
Si

[bandwidthbandit]

i stumbled across this website after reading your post.  i have no idea if its of any use to you or not.  am still waiting for my rx to arrive so have no personal experience on the matter.

http://rx7.voodoobox.net/

click on the "how to" button on the left and you\'ll see 2 how tos regarding fans.

hope this helps,

Nik