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Intermittent cooling light on Golf
My engine coolant light has been coming on. It does not come on every time I start my car it only does it when I use my car first thing in the morning and it goes off once I start driving. It only started doing this within the last 2 weeks. Why is it doing this?
Asked on 27 September 2012 by vix1721
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Possibly an airlock in the cooling system caused by switching on the heater for the first time after the summer.
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