Frightening experience!!!!
06 August 2010, 01:04 PM
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Frightening experience!!!!
After accidentaly breaking the little plastic hose clip on my rad 
i finally replaced my raditor yesterday and topped it up with water and coolant,yes i bled the system and didnt drive it until today,on my way back from gym i thought because i havent been in my scooby for 2 weeks i will drive up and down the dual carriage way
however, i switched on to high boost and seemed it had lost power
I then stopped at some traffic lights and it wasnt idling properly,switched back to low boost and it was abit better,so i managed to limp back home and noticed my temp started creeping up!!!
i opened my bonnnet and seen the bottom rad hose managed to somehow come off
tbh i **** my self and as it was to hot i couldnt put it back on so decided to leave it to cool down for a cuple of hours!
after 20min i was back out as the wait was killing me and i was thinking head gaskets
i actually came on scooby net and asked someone if they had complete engine haha..
now i put the hose on and topped water back up with coolant but heaters were freezing
i drove around my estate keeping an eye on my engine temp and after 200yards the heaters warmed up
so decided to take it for a longer drive where i put it on high boost and finally had a sigh of relief
lesson learnt: tighten hoses and triple check and check again lol
i finally replaced my raditor yesterday and topped it up with water and coolant,yes i bled the system and didnt drive it until today,on my way back from gym i thought because i havent been in my scooby for 2 weeks i will drive up and down the dual carriage way
however, i switched on to high boost and seemed it had lost power
I then stopped at some traffic lights and it wasnt idling properly,switched back to low boost and it was abit better,so i managed to limp back home and noticed my temp started creeping up!!!
i opened my bonnnet and seen the bottom rad hose managed to somehow come off
tbh i **** my self and as it was to hot i couldnt put it back on so decided to leave it to cool down for a cuple of hours!
after 20min i was back out as the wait was killing me and i was thinking head gaskets
i actually came on scooby net and asked someone if they had complete engine haha..
now i put the hose on and topped water back up with coolant but heaters were freezing
i drove around my estate keeping an eye on my engine temp and after 200yards the heaters warmed up
so decided to take it for a longer drive where i put it on high boost and finally had a sigh of relief
lesson learnt: tighten hoses and triple check and check again lol
06 August 2010, 01:41 PM
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goes to show something as simple as not tightening could lead to a major problem
06 August 2010, 01:51 PM
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Keep checking the coolant level and also for contaminants like gasses and oil - hopefully the heads/gaskets are ok same for the oil, check it for water contamination.
06 August 2010, 02:17 PM
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will do bud iv opened the oil top up cap and oil seems ok and smells normal,however like you said i will keep checking and fingers crossed i stopped before any damage/failure
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