SHAGGYDOG

Car is now at the garage awaiting assessment - recovered twice today by Greenflag, excellent service.

1st incident - sudden increase in temp guage and pulled over fluid spewing out through over flow tube (white bottle). Recovery vehicle came out, did checks, refilled system, pressure tested etc, all ok, stable, so on I went

40 miles later same thing - overheat and almost all loss of water fluid - car flat bedded away to garage - embarrassing as all the cars I'd been screaming past were now passing me. LOL

Any ideas appreciated?

Any good point to the day? Yep, afterburner fitted, awesome ....

Cheers

jameswrx

iTrader: (4)

maybe your thermostat is sticking shut?

reefyman

head gaskets maybe.just happened to me lost water out overflow but also had loads of white smoke out the exhaust.

SHAGGYDOG

Thanks for the replies - head gasket - they checked for water out the back pipe - clean

So thermostat - could well be, hopefully a simple fix

Should know more tomorrow and will advise

Cheers

New To Scoob

Shaggydog, a guy at work had this same thing this week on his Jeep Cherokee, the only thing I could think of at the time was an airlock in his cooling system, but the same as you it happened later that day aswell he took it to the garage and one of the mechanics found a small split in one of the hoses, this was allowing air to be drawn into the system then it would blow the water out of the system once the air content got to a certain amount, could be something worth looking at on yours m8.

dhorwich

check the rad cap on the header tank because if its knackered the system will not get up to pressure and the water will just overflow all the time into the overflow tank near the battery..

Dan

scoobyDAZZA

well,at least u got afterburner fitted,,lol...
hope its sorted for u m8y
good 2 meet u

daz

SHAGGYDOG

Thanks again

Now heard from the garage, seems that I've got some cool spots on the rad so not working that efficiently - with the hot weather we've had its exposed the weakness

They did a 'gas sniff test' around the header tank cap, a bit high but all within limits - will get a new cap anyway

No water out back pipe - dry as a bone so head gasket ok

Samco hoses are all ok

So a new rad seems to be needed .. anyone know where I can get one in good nick 2nd hand? Price??

Spoken to Subaru who do an exchange where you give them your old one and you can get a replacement for £170+VAT. Good deal??

Cheers



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scoobyDAZZA

170 seems pretty good 4 new un m8y,,and you'll get it quicker.
i would
but then again who'd pay 210 for a second hand afterburner,pmsl.

hope its sorted soon bud
ps,,,got me new plates 2day,,bike sized square on front,and fancy lettering,lol....how long till im pulled ?

daz

SHAGGYDOG

on checking with Subrau they are reconditioned rads so not such a good deal me thinks

erm your plates, it just depends on your (bad) luck so good luck!

210 for an a/burner money well spent, at least the hanger is on the right way :P




[Edited by SHAGGYDOG - 7/14/2003 8:18:03 PM]

scoobyDAZZA

lol
they sent me 1 for new age ffs
but the VERY GOOD EXCELLENT company i got it from say its blitz' fault,,and it is.. so hoping to get replacement soon,,VERY SOON..
and they may even give me disount on itg panel filter,i think they should errrrhummm.lol. even tho it aint theyre fault

daz

SHAGGYDOG

cool, hope you get it sorted ...

submannz

Mine did the same couldn't tell where it was comming from, it was a slight split in the plastic end caps of the radiator.