WARNING!

NEVER let anyone wearing a light blue, angora jumper, sit in your Jimny.

The passenger seat, door trip, and some of the dashboard, looks like a rabbit has explode.

Question for Gen5 owners, please.

On initial start up, and for a couple on minutes thereafter,once on the move, I have a cooling level warning light showing. Level is good. This is only from a cold start.


Steve.

The light shows Blue until normal operating temp is reached then it goes off. If you overheat it will show Red.

Yes that light has troubled me as well. Saw a blue light and thought at first I was driving down the road with my main beam on!

For those who lack mechanical sympathy - that blue glow is a simple reminder not to thrash the engine until the coolant has warmed up.

Soeley wrote: The light shows Blue until normal operating temp is reached then it goes off. If you overheat it will show Red.

Another warning -if you don't have a temperature guage when if the red light comes on it could be too late. The crappy VW polo TDI once owned had a red "overheat" light and no gauge. After several episodes of refusing to rev, eventually I discovered the cooling fan had never worked on the car. 2 years shutting down was the engine trying to protect itself, red light did not flash once. If it had been a gauge it would have been obvious. Get one of those ODB readers and get the temp out of the engine, best way to tell if it's not well.

The red light will flash if its getting hot and will stay on if its too hot

Scimike wrote:

Soeley wrote: The light shows Blue until normal operating temp is reached then it goes off. If you overheat it will show Red.

Another warning -if you don't have a temperature guage when if the red light comes on it could be too late. The crappy VW polo TDI once owned had a red "overheat" light and no gauge. After several episodes of refusing to rev, eventually I discovered the cooling fan had never worked on the car. 2 years shutting down was the engine trying to protect itself, red light did not flash once. If it had been a gauge it would have been obvious. Get one of those ODB readers and get the temp out of the engine, best way to tell if it's not well.

Link to a correct ODB reader would be appreciated, by this OF, please.

I used the oil temp readout on my Yeti from cold to normal operating temperature most times that I drove it. Having coolant temp. on the Jimny would be good, IMO.



Steve.

This may be totally normal, and it may be "a thing" on most cars, i dont know but.....

When parked on my driveway about to set off, i sometimes get distracted and fiddle with my phone. Whilst the engine is warming up, the cooling fan (inside engine bay) keeps turning itself on and off intermittently (about every 7-10 seconds).

Is this normal?

Andy2640 wrote: This may be totally normal, and it may be "a thing" on most cars, i dont know but.....

When parked on my driveway about to set off, i sometimes get distracted and fiddle with my phone. Whilst the engine is warming up, the cooling fan (inside engine bay) keeps turning itself on and off intermittently (about every 7-10 seconds).

Is this normal?

Yes, Andy, mine does it as well. I thought that it could be the A/C, but have not bothered to switch it off to find out.



Steve.

Yup, that's the A/C compressor clutch kicking in and out. Completely normal.

GeorgeC wrote: OK, After reading the replies, could the "Climate Control" be Reverse-Cycle Air-Conditioning?

I have a visitor staying at the moment with a big GM Colorado 4X4 + 18' Caravan, and with all the "mine vs yours" b-s flowing the Climate Control feature came up in conversation. His is, indeed, reverse cycle Air Con!

In the car? or the caravan? I've never heard of it fitted to a car before, there is little point as the engine needs to lose a bit of heat anyway, and sticking a small water radiator in the air con for heat is cheap & standard practice.

The Gen4 doesn't use reverse cycle, there are rubber water pipes leading to the heater/air con unit behind the engine in the photos, I will confirm on SZ5 if & when I get mine.....(hopefully Saturday )