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• Golf GT TDi 115 PD 2001 - Overheating 26 May 2011 (Forum)
  Have recentley bought this car, full service history lots of work done to it. It's fine on little runs, but the moment you're on the open road the temp soars and the coolant is gone. It had a new rad, water pump in January. today it had the coolant sensor replaced and a new expansion tank
• Rover Metro (1990 - 1995) - 1994 1.1 bleeding coolant system 4 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  Hi there new to the forum so hi to everyone,just a quick question that members may be able to help with.I have a Rover Metro 1.1s that I have replaced...
• Head gasket blown? Rover214Si 11 Jun 2006 (Forum)
  I just noticed I'm loosing a little coolant on my P-reg Rover 214Si. Also, there's brown oily gung floating on the top of the water in the coolant expansion tank. This sounds horribly like the head gasget is going - true? What sort of cost am I likely to be in for.... {Car details added
• Almera head gasket? 1 Nov 2005 (Forum)
  I have a 96 P reg nissan almera. It has recently started to overheat and use up coolant. I have just noticed small amounts of oil in the coolant. Am i right in assuming that it is the head gasket going? If so would using radweld or something similar sort out the problem? I am only looking to run
• topping up. mixing semi with fully synth 10 Feb 2004 (Forum)
  My Toyota needs a little oil and coolant - it has semi synthetic oil. My question is can I put 100% synthetic oil in (300ml) to top it up? Also can I put in another make of coolant in or should I use Toyota\'s own stuff - again it is a small amount but getting the dealer is a bit of a trip
• Vauxhall Zafira A - fans running 26 Jan 2013 (Forum)
  my 2001 zafira has the coolant light flashing on and off on the dash board the coolant levels are ok all so when i turn on the ignition but dont start the engine the radiator fan and the ac fan starts to run when the engine is started the fans still run all so hard to start when cold but when
• Porsche Boxster 986 + Boxster S (1996 - 2004) - 98 2.5 Coolant level 3 Jun 2009 (Forum)
  After every 500 miles or so I need to top up the expansion tank with about half a cup full of coolent as the temp guage red light flashes.No increase in...
• Vauxhall Zafira A (1999 - 2005) - 1999 1.8 - Coolant colour in expansion tank 14 May 2008 (Forum)
  After a bit of advice please. I've just looked at a 1999 1.8 Zafira for Mrs P. Its all very tidy but the fluid in the expansion tank was very dark/black...
• Renault Twingo (1995 - 2005) - Loosing coolant 17 Aug 2007 (Forum)
  After about 60 miles driven, the car looses about 2 pints of water. There are no indications of any leakage. The engine runs perfectly. No sign of any...
• Ford Coolant colours 27 Jan 2005 (Forum)
  Hi all, Topped up with 200ml of water, now just under max mark. However went to top up with antifreeze but noticed its a differant colour! Its a purple...
• 306Dturbo '96 speedo etc not working.... 10 Jun 2004 (Forum)
  Also the temp gauge, reversing lights, coolant level lamp. The ECU lamp is on very faintly & so is the coolant temp warning lamp. I've replaced the fuse that feeds these (No.12 (10A)) but as soon as ignition is switched on the fuse blows, sometimes it's ok until the engine actually first fires up
• If the heater matrix in my Golf had packed up 22 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  I'd be short of coolant wouldn't I ? Just trying to locate the source of a large puddle in the front passenger footwell after yesterday's heavy rain. Coolant level OK and the liquid didn't smell or taste funny. I've recently had the aerial replaced (it's over the nearside front wheel arch
• Peugot 207 1.4 VTI - 207 coolant sensor 17 Aug 2015 (Forum)
  My wife has a 1.4 VTI which is sluggish in starting and has an erratic dashboard temp. display. Research indicates that this may be due to a faulty engine coolant sensor but where is it? I have searched high and low but am unable to locate it! I
• Jaguar XJS 3.6 - ? Head Gasket failure 17 Dec 2014 (Forum)
  and recently it has developed a misfire on cylinder 2. On inspection the plug recess was almost full of water that I take to be coolant as the car is garaged. There is no significant coolant or oil loss, the coolant is clean and there's no sludge in the oil filler or on the dipstick
• VW Passat 2001 1.9 Tdi Sports water prob 27 May 2013 (Forum)
  The water is 'boiling' in one place near the coolant bottle. It is not circulating throughout the system. The 'Stop check coolant level' light is flashing on the computer display. It has been running fine until i was getting on a motorway 2 days ago i noticed the temp guage was nearly on red
• BMW 3 Series E46 - engine overheat 26 Jan 2011 (Forum)
  background on car. driving along engine overheated. found aux belts come off and wrapped around viscous fan. tensioner pulley had broken. replaced tensioner and belts with new parts as old ones broken/damaged. topped up coolant, and bled system, run engine, heat through heating
• Volvo S70/V70 (1996 - 2000) - yr 1997 2.5 turbo - coolant system pressurising 9 Mar 2008 (Forum)
  I have a 1997 r reg volvo v70 xc the coolant system pressurises after a few miles of driving, and it over heated, i took it to the garage where they said the head gasket had gone, there is no oil in the water nor any water in the oil, they said they didnt know why it was pressurising but the head
• Citroen ZX 1.9TD Coolant leak (inside!) 5 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  . The coolant leaks when the engine is running or not but I suspect that if I realeased the pressure from the rad it wouldn't continue? Any thoughts on this would be gratefully appreciated, along with any rough costs. Thanks in advance Paul
• Fiesta 1.25 coolant return pipe 31 Aug 2003 (Forum)
  The hose from the radiator on my car has started to leak again. First i put it down to the spring clip not doing its job properly any more so i put a super torq clip on which we use on our trains at work. When i checked this afternoon i can see a very little drop of coolant and when i felt the pipe
• Toyota Avensis 2.0 Diesel D-4D - White smoke (steam?), didnt crank the first time 29 May 2012 (Forum)
  this morning the temperature just touched the red zone and then slowly dropped back to normal and again touched and then dropped back to normal. Went to the nearest Halfords, checked for the coolant level and found it to be empty!! (though the car was serviced at Kwik Fit just a month back