Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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Hey peeps,
Serious problems here went out driving the other day for about 20 minutes, pulled back up on my driveway, and the temperature guage was slowly going up, so i switched the engine off, and in about 2 seconds there was water ****ing out from the engine bay
I left it for the night and came out next morning, there was hardly any coolant left in the expansion tank.
I topped it back up, started the car and put the heaters on full in the car. Within about 10 minutes the temperature went to 90c, then gradually went up. For some reason the fan only kicked in for a very short while then cut off. When the thermostat opened up the temperature went up like a bugger. I shut the engine off again and all of a sudden the expansion tank filled instantly to the top with coolant and boiled over and spat everywhere
Any ideas peeps? Im hoping its not the head gasket 
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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sounds like headgasket or an airlock...
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Darren
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Registered: 21st Apr 02
Location: Hadleigh, Suffolk
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HG
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LukeGSi
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Registered: 9th Dec 03
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Doesnt sound good mate, me predicts HG too
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Gambit
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you should have looked to see where the water was coming from in the engine bay.
infact id fill it back up put the cap back on then sit and let it idle until the fan comes on - then you can have a look around to see where the water is pissing out of
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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The water pisses out of the top of the coolant bottle when i switch the engine off.....
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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just spotted a bit of mayoooo in the expansion tank today, HG is firked then :'(
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Kris TD
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Registered: 25th Mar 02
Location: Ware, Hertfordshire
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
just spotted a bit of mayoooo in the expansion tank today, HG is firked then :'(
not necessarily, people always jump to the conclusion that white mayo or over heating is head gasket. you can get the mayo stuff from a blocked brether, or anytihng really. i dont know wat your engine is like but the 2.5 v6 has the oil cooler surrounded by water, its a commoon problem on these that the seasl go and oil gets in the water, nothing to do with HG though.
i would check your water pump, thermostat, fan switch before jumping to conclusions about the hg.
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Ally
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Registered: 2nd Jul 03
Location: Pontypool Drives: a Skoda
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His car ... she is dead
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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indeed she is *
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Richie
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Registered: 3rd Dec 02
Location: Newport, Wales
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She is alive again 
Flushed out cooling system, drained engine oil (there was wayyyyyyyyyy to much oil in there, the dipstick was reading almost double  ), refilled both, replaced thermostat cos old one was sticking, and replaced rad switch because it didnt kick in till about 98c but the new one kicks in at 95c which is right, and all is hunky dory now
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