Radiator Fan

My GTI radiator fan appears  blow out from the engine. I'm sure it should drawn air from outside over the radiator. I'm sure this isn't correct. What's the fix.

Sounds as if you have it wired wrong.
Depending on the year and options you could have a 2 speed or a single speed fan.

A/C equipped card use a 2 speed fan, a 2 speed  radiator fan switch.

As you are looking at the fan, the brown wire should be at your left.

Power is on the right as you are looking down at it.  That is the easiest way to get one running backwards….DC motors are stupid they run either way…just reverse the wires and presto it is back asswards…

The motors are insulated from earth because of the shroud. So VW uses 2 or 3 wires to power them.

One is brown, and the other one is red/white, or a variation of red/black usually….

So I would first suspect the fan connections.

I would suspect that the Radiator fan switch could be wonky, and depending on the year they threw a relay in that is on the passenger side fender infront of the battery on a bracket that is attached to the fender lip.

Thanks for the response. For clarity are you saying that when you look at the fan from say the drivers position that the brown is on the right, or when stood in front of the car looking down?

When I'm stood in front of the car looking down at the motor the brown is currently on the right.

Thanks in advance

look carefully at the plug on the fan. might be just as simple as switching it the other way. mine was forced on the wrong way round and fan span backwards. once firtted correctly I foudn the slow speed had burnt out on the fan as well, possibly from being run backwards, or it field and plug swapped to 'fix' the problem

the plugs are keyed so should only fit 1 way, but chumps do manage to get roudn these things