Don
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The beemer died today, its the first time its ever let me down properly.
I started it up, and drove it towards work (I actually get the train to work now, but needed to drive to another office to do some work later that day)
The car warmed up within about 2 minutes of me leaving the house? However, no heat from the heater?! Whilst i was driving along the temp was creeping up slowly.
I pulled into a petrol station, and saw the temp rise, so drove off again and it stabilised at 3/4s of the temp guage, still away from the red. However, as i go nearer and nearer the motorway, traffic got slowly worse, and the temp was nearly in the red. So i pulled over and stopped at the train station in theale, and decided to get the train in. (never actually went into the red!)
I had a quick look at under the bonnet before running for the train, it looks like there is a leak from the explansion tank attached to the rad, so im thinking im going to top it up, then drive it home when the traffic is gone.
When i get it home wrap it up in the garage and pull out the rad/expansion tank to try and find the dodgy seal. I think its the base of the expansion tank, just below level sensor. Fingers crossed i can bodge up a decent seal and order another expansion tank if required to make sure it wont go wrong again. The last thing i want to do to this poor old beast is cook the engine after 190k cause i didnt fix it properly!
I started it up, and drove it towards work (I actually get the train to work now, but needed to drive to another office to do some work later that day)
The car warmed up within about 2 minutes of me leaving the house? However, no heat from the heater?! Whilst i was driving along the temp was creeping up slowly.
I pulled into a petrol station, and saw the temp rise, so drove off again and it stabilised at 3/4s of the temp guage, still away from the red. However, as i go nearer and nearer the motorway, traffic got slowly worse, and the temp was nearly in the red. So i pulled over and stopped at the train station in theale, and decided to get the train in. (never actually went into the red!)
I had a quick look at under the bonnet before running for the train, it looks like there is a leak from the explansion tank attached to the rad, so im thinking im going to top it up, then drive it home when the traffic is gone.
When i get it home wrap it up in the garage and pull out the rad/expansion tank to try and find the dodgy seal. I think its the base of the expansion tank, just below level sensor. Fingers crossed i can bodge up a decent seal and order another expansion tank if required to make sure it wont go wrong again. The last thing i want to do to this poor old beast is cook the engine after 190k cause i didnt fix it properly!
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And iirc he replaced the clutch on it not long back anyway.
