Shortly after I bought my 6, the rad popped and dumped coolant everywhere. It didn't overheat luckily, I caught it just in time to prevent any damage.

I dropped it to a mechanic I trust who knows peugeots quite well, and he discovered the fans weren't kicking in, and ended up replacing my radiator, one of the fans and a relay, but did mention that the fans were still intermittent for some reason, but they were kicking in at high speed. I needed the car urgently so took it off him as it was.

Now the car still doesn't overheat, it sits at about 80 degrees on motorways and open roads, but once in traffic it will climb to just under 110 degrees before dropping back to 90 again, and sometimes it won't go much above 100 degrees.

Pulling the brown sensor on the thermostat housing makes the fans come on, but pressing the A/C button doesn't.

Where do I go from here?

Colm

Does your air conditioning work? because if it doesn't then pressing the ac button wont do anything unless you have bodged the wiring to the pressure switch like some of us have due to the ac system having no gas in it

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Team Supercharged Gti-6™

Next step to look at would be replacing the Bitron unit which controls the fans.....this is situated under the nearside front wing.

It isn't overly expensive, but if you can swap a known good one from another forum member it may save you money in the long run if you discover the problem is not this.

Stan.

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"Supercharged - 454.1bhp/317.5lb/ft"
Peugeot 306 GTi-6
2000 (X), Moonstone

There is a faq in the faq section regarding the fan set up which might help, also if you have bridged the connectors in the plug to turn your fans on with the ac button make sure you disconnect the plug going into the compressor or you will damage it,

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Team Supercharged Gti-6™

faq
http://www.306gti6.com/forum/showthread.php?id=48070&page=1

Its just a short wiring loom coming off the compressor and I think its a white connector, should be pretty easy to find and disconnect

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Team Supercharged Gti-6™

Tried getting at it there, it's stuck to the front of the engine block under the intake manifold, not a chance will my arms fit in there unless I go from underneath, and I'm not able to do that right now...ah well, if the condenser goes bang I won't be too upset, it's coming out as soon as I get the chance to fit the rallye aux setup anyway...just as long as it doesn't take the aux belt out with it when it does go bang? I won't be using it often anyway, maybe 15 minutes a day max while I'm sitting in traffic, until I get the fans sorted.

Minor update on this...I fitted a bitron fan speed controller box from a gti6 a mate was breaking this evening.

With the car turned on, pulling the block connector off the fan switch caused only the passenger side fan to come on at high speed as before, but a gentle prod of the drivers side fan caused that to spin at high speed too. I reconnected the fan switch connector and they stopped, and on disconnecting it again both spun at low speed, followed shortly by spinning at high speed.

Is it safe to say the drivers side fan motor is en route to being banjaxed?