Stef kotso

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Hello guys again i open the water bottle i see this thinks. But oil cap is clean as you can see what are this thinks inside in water ? When I’m driving the temperature don’t rise is seating there at the middle but I’m seeing in hot days the temperature rise quicker to 90 degrees. Thanks.!
Model Freelander 1 1.8L K series
 

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Sadly this looks like oil and engine fumes contaminating the coolant.

Best to get compression test and / or a 'sniffer' test where a chemical held over the header tank can show engine fumes in the coolant.

Suspect head gasket is failing.
 
Has it had a head gasket replaced recently, and its contamination that wasn’t cleaned out at the time?
 
Has it had a head gasket replaced recently, and its contamination that wasn’t cleaned out at the time?
look I see these symptoms recently when I’m driving like for an hour when I’m stoping at traffic light the fan is starting working hard like the engine is tired and he needs to cool and gears is stuck when is time to change or to come to neutral but no temperature rise up is still seating in the right temperature
 
K series, first thing to check is the compression to rule out head gasket failure.
 
The engine is changed in 2018 the engine the new engine came from UK with 60k kilometres and brand new head gasket
K Series are great engines but are known to eat head-gaskets.
Anything over 50k miles (80k km) and you are on borrowed time but many will fail before that.
How many kilometres are on the car now?
If the head-gasket was replaced at 60k, what make of gasket was used?
Did the head need skimmed when the gasket was replaced and was it?
Did the engine overheat and soften the head?

Many questions that you will probably never know the answer to but do as suggested.
Also oil leaks often come from the camshaft seals but are simple to replace.
 

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