MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: ongoing on January 27, 2011, 12:06:30 pm

Title: cold air
Post by: ongoing on January 27, 2011, 12:06:30 pm: might just be me, but..

when im driving with the heaters on and i turn a corner i notice a cold burst of ait coming into the car.

any ideas????

ive already checked to make sure all the blowers work hot and cold.

cheers
Title: Re: cold air
Post by: rich83 on January 27, 2011, 12:56:50 pm: Ive had 2 mk5 golfs and both have done this. Its most felt around the gearstick area, but ive no idea to as why!
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Post by: Andy on January 27, 2011, 01:28:43 pm: i used to get this so i set the heater controls on the windscreen and the floor and it cured it
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Post by: jimmy-s3 on January 27, 2011, 05:08:40 pm: Mine does it too and my mk4 r32 did it!
Its weird!
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Post by: seiko on January 27, 2011, 07:57:43 pm: yep, get the same on my mk5 gti and my mk2 and my skyline, really weird
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Post by: TrickGTI on January 27, 2011, 08:10:14 pm: There have being a few threads on this and i dont think anyone knows why it happens
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Post by: ongoing on January 27, 2011, 08:30:39 pm: Was worth ago.

I'll try puting it on the windscreen and feet and hopefully it solves it.

Cheers
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Post by: tony_danza on January 28, 2011, 03:08:18 pm: Simple physics, hot air rises and air also moves.

So when you go around a corner, you're 'stirring' the pot, so to speak and a load of cold air that was elsewhere will come surging around the car.
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Post by: ongoing on January 28, 2011, 04:14:30 pm: :happy2: cheers
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Post by: Betty02 on January 29, 2011, 10:03:18 am: I was thinking similar to the above myself. The Twingo used to do it and Sao said hot air rises and moves about, if you turn the air doesn't exactly turn with you if you know what I mean? Therefore creating patches of cold air.
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Post by: Jack Frost on January 29, 2011, 04:01:44 pm: I think you'll find that when you turn a corner then one wheel will be channelling the air towards the centre of the car. As there is only one hole in the floor i.e where the gearstick pops through, then the air is forced through it - thus you feel the cold draught coming up through the floor when you corner.
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Post by: tony_danza on January 29, 2011, 04:36:52 pm: ^ LOL.

And the world is flat, the moon is made of cheese and a pig has just flown past my house!!

In the nicest possible way, sit and have a think about what you've just wrote.
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Post by: Jack Frost on January 30, 2011, 12:40:07 am: Yoy think this is incorrect ? If it was cold air being stirred up when cornering then it would be doing the same when you accelerate and brake surely :P The only way air will move in the car is when a window is open or you have a fan running.
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Post by: tony_danza on January 30, 2011, 08:47:43 am: If you were allowed to leave school believing that, then I have lost all faith in our education system. That's 1st year physics.

Oh, and have a look under your gearstick gaitor, the hole you imagine is there really isn't.
Title: Re: cold air
Post by: ongoing on January 30, 2011, 12:40:08 pm: seem to have sorted it by having the heating on feet and windscreen
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Post by: Andy on January 30, 2011, 11:04:30 pm: Quote from: ongoing on January 30, 2011, 12:40:08 pm
seem to have sorted it by having the heating on feet and windscreen
glad it worked :happy2:
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Post by: JamesH on January 31, 2011, 10:50:53 am: This has always ammused me. I thought it was just my "hot air" mixed with the cold air in the car!! :ashamed:
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Post by: ongoing on January 31, 2011, 12:55:08 pm: Quote from: JamesH on January 31, 2011, 10:50:53 am
This has always ammused me. I thought it was just my "hot air" mixed with the cold air in the car!! :ashamed:

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