darth510
New Member
Hi all, can anyone please shed some light on this fault. About a month ago whilst driving my 2001 4.0 V8 P38, the temp gauge shot straight up to the red and red light on, i pulled over and it went straight back to normal, checked the engine not over heating. over a month or so it done this a few times, sometimes accompanied by the dreaded book symbol on the hevac. The other day it done this a few times, one time it stayed in red for a few minutes, so i pulled over, steam was coming out of the expansion bottle, water had been spat out the left side of the car and all over tyres etc. after about 2 minutes it was normal, i drve to a petrol station, topped the water up(which spat out under pressure) and drove home with no further problems for about 15 miles. any ideas please as dont want to risk another overheat