Ralph Bayley wrote:

"mocha" wrote in message
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Hi,

Apologies for this question in advance.

I have a vw golf 1.6 2001 and dont know if its water or air cooled how do
I find this out ?

Cheers


Volkswagen's first car the VW type 1 more commonly called the Beetle in the
UK and Bug in the USA (and Käfer in Germany) was air cooled and all
subsequent mainstream cars from VW upto the early seventies were all air
cooled. The first mainstream VW car that was watercooled was the VW K70 all
the mainstream cars from VW including the new Beetle (and all Golfs) are
watercooled.

The difference between air cooled and water cooled engines is that an air
cooled engine uses air to cool the engine using a big fan and ducting, a
water cooled engine uses water to cool the engine pumping the water from
the radiator around the engine.

Almost all new cars today are watercooled the only exception may be a
Porsche 911 but I believe the latest incarnation of this car is also
watercooled.

Yup, last of the aircooled was the 993 911 which was discontinued in
1996 when they brought out the 996 (same headlights as mk1 boxter) which
had a watercooled lump.
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