My cooling fan on my FRS comes on when i start the car from cold,like even when its frosty outside,i start it then couple of seconds later the fan kicks in.its not the air con as i've checked its off.
Anyone ever heard of anything?
Cheers

 

The Focus RS has an AUTO air con feature. If you have noticed on the heater controls some of the icons are orange. These indicate Auto aircon, If you have it set to blow on windscreen you have the air conditioning on. Try setting it half way between so it isnt fully on wind screen and the fans will go off. And fuel consumption will improve.

 

As stated if you point the air flow from the vents onto the windscreen on any fan setting auto air con engages which turns on your engine fans

 

Cheers guys

I'll try it next time i have it out. I had a feeling it would be something daft.

 

i have noticed this on mine 2,really happy that its normal

 

wtf!

so if you have the heater direction set to the orange windscreen pic then it uses the aircon?!

i've noticed that 3 on the fan control has windscreen next to it and its orange too. Does this use the aircon as well?

I ALWAYS have my heater direction to windscreen in other cars. Just got the frs on sat. I'll stop that if its the case!

 

Yes & yes - i believe the reason for it though is that its designed to be a "quick clear" setup for the windscreen - very useful at times & yet also annoying at others

 

i went on to the rsbb and the FRS section there is very good and i found the info. It also tells you how to remove this

i bought the car on sat and thought the gauge was dropping nice and slow. Between yest and today driving to work in early morning cold conditions with the fan set to windscreen the gauge had dropped quicker. Guess this hasn't helped!

 

Very easy to get rid of - pretty sure you just have to snip one wire!

 

How to remove this feature

http://bbs.rsownersclub.co.uk/showth...ve+auto+aircon