VW at extreme temperatures.

[AussieMick]

Just showing the temperature range we ask our vans to operate in.
Today is 43 degrees Celsius outside and van runs fine.
Thankfully with air-conditioning.
If anyone has any pictures of very hot or very cold conditions we can see who has the hottest or coldest conditions we drive our vans in.

 

[Bav]

Just showing the temperature range we ask our vans to operate in.
Today is 43 degrees Celsius outside and van runs fine.
Thankfully with air-conditioning.
If anyone has any pictures of very hot or very cold conditions we can see who has the hottest or coldest conditions we drive our vans in.View attachment 314588

I suspect the coldest will be from one of Finnish members... unless I decide to park my van in my porch - it's always nithering in there!

 

[Dellmassive]

Yeh. @mmi has shown some very impressive cold temperatures that he's shown.

The most I've seen in London is -6 to +36c.

I would assume that cold climates are harder on the van, as the engine likes to be at 90c for most of the time anyway.

 

[FWhite]

Just showing the temperature range we ask our vans to operate in.
Today is 43 degrees Celsius outside and van runs fine.
Thankfully with air-conditioning.
If anyone has any pictures of very hot or very cold conditions we can see who has the hottest or coldest conditions we drive our vans in.View attachment 314588

Nice hot temperature! I am sure over there you can get even more if it happens you get stuck under the sun in the afternoon. I wish we could import just a little of it here in East Europe, it's like 3 weeks that we do not see any ice melting!

BTW, Not sure what you get Downunder, but for the T6 1, there is a specific "Hot Climates" option. Don't know exactly what it entails, possibly an oil radiator.

 

[mmi]

Yeh. @mmi has shown some very impressive cold temperatures that he's shown.

No... @Jey would be the expert [Guide] [T6_modified] T6 Webasto Aux/Parking (water) Heater Configuration with VCDS

Post in thread '[T6_measured] Winter specialities'

11 Feb 2024

Not exactly a winter speciality - but easier to spot when cold.


@1370 seconds of the log.

Dash coolant temperature gauge (red) vs. actual engine coolant temperature (green)​

Engine and cabin preheated, thus coolant at +30 °C at engine startup.



As explained in VW SSP 311 The Transporter 2004 Electrical system



Also mentioned:

Coolant Temperature Readout

Today, I noticed that the coolant temperature gauges were out of sync! The analogue one didn't move off zero for several minutes and the digital one appeared to lag behind the analogue gauge.....so when the analogue gauge eventually got up to 90 degrees, the digital gauge was only reading 60...

www.t6forum.com

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Post in thread 'Where Have You Been In Your Van Today?'

28 Jul 2021

5 months ago... and lately...

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Even seen on vans from the UK ​

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Post in thread '-21°c sunset and the van performs great.'

27 Jan 2018

Only on my IPhone it was really that spectacular



-35 upset it though I needed a battery booster the TPMS wanted resetting the header tank coolant went slushy and the DRLs kept pinging faults was ok once running but the wipers are ruined after freezing to the windscreen

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[Sasquatch]

-29°C was the coldest I've driven in, and thet was indeed in Finland. I was going out with an au pair and when she returned home I went across to visit.

She's now a cabinet minister, and Im a fat bald man so I guess  she I had a lucky escape !

40 celsiuses is the hottest I've driven in, and that was here a couple of years ago. Those big Volvo 5 pots make a lot of heat and I was concerned but in the end the car behaved just fine.

 

[aferris2]

Got this in Goolwa back in December 2019. Think we actually had 45.5 as we were heading in to town but couldn't stop to take a picture.

 

[AussieMick]

I can't even imagine those temperatures so cold.
We think around 0 degrees Celsius is bloody freezing.
I guess its what you are used to.
I don't think I would be a good driver on icy roads.
45 degrees Celsius is about as hot as it gets but you don't feel like doing much outdoors as it feels like a pizza oven.
Thankfully doesnt happen too often.