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Engine Compartment Fan Comes on When It's Cold

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YOUR RESEARCHEngine Compartment Fan Comes on When It's Cold

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secondary air blower

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What you hear is probably the secondary air blower which should start and run for about 1 - 2 minutes depending on how cold it is.
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Run about 1 - 2 minutes depending

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What you hear is probably the secondary air blower which should start and run for about 1 - 2 minutes depending on how cold it is.
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Run about 1 - 2 minutes depending

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What you hear is probably the secondary air blower which should start and run for about 1 - 2 minutes depending on how cold it is.
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Run about 1 - 2 minutes depending

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What you hear is probably the secondary air blower which should start and run for about 1 - 2 minutes depending on how cold it is.
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secondary air blower

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What you hear is probably the secondary air blower which should start and run for about 1 - 2 minutes depending on how cold it is.
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POST 1 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Every morning when I start the car - anytime it's cold - my engine compartment fan comes on and stays on until the engine starts to warm up a little. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? It doesn't come on when it's warm, and I've certainly done a lot of spirited driving. How do I check if it's hooked up properly?

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What you hear is probably the secondary air blower which should start and run for about 1 - 2 minutes depending on how cold it is.

POST 3Original post

Agreed - this pumps additional O2 into your exhaust system to try and give you cleaner cold-start burn, with lower emissions. On other vehicles, such as my Landrover Discovery, the secondary blower sounds like a damn Dyson vacuum as it runs for those initial minutes on a cold day! The Porsche one is pretty tame by comparison.

POST 4 / ORIGINAL POSTEROriginal post

Interesting - I had no idea. I thought it was a wacky engine compartment fan - thanks!

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