Morning,
Over the past few days I've been getting a knock on cold start on my 1998 4.6 HSE P38. It seems to have started doing it with the temperature drop outside, everything runs smoothly once up to temperature. I'd planned on doing an oil and filter change this weekend and going from there to diagnose the issue. The level looks fine.
Typically, after spending last night talking about it with a mate, the drive to work this morning went terribly wrong. Accelerating (not foot to the floor stuff) up the slip road to get onto the motorway all that can be seen behind me is plumes of white steam/smoke!! Temperature light is slap bang in the middle though, I was watching that carefully as I was pulling over.
I pull over and there is steam pouring out of the engine bay, I pop the bonnet and there is green coolant sprayed everywhere by the looks of it. I've had to abandon the car there for the time being, will go back at either lunchtime or after work and get the AA out to have a look/recover me.
Any pointers as to what this is likely to be, apart from expensive that is!!
Over the past few days I've been getting a knock on cold start on my 1998 4.6 HSE P38. It seems to have started doing it with the temperature drop outside, everything runs smoothly once up to temperature. I'd planned on doing an oil and filter change this weekend and going from there to diagnose the issue. The level looks fine.
Typically, after spending last night talking about it with a mate, the drive to work this morning went terribly wrong. Accelerating (not foot to the floor stuff) up the slip road to get onto the motorway all that can be seen behind me is plumes of white steam/smoke!! Temperature light is slap bang in the middle though, I was watching that carefully as I was pulling over.
I pull over and there is steam pouring out of the engine bay, I pop the bonnet and there is green coolant sprayed everywhere by the looks of it. I've had to abandon the car there for the time being, will go back at either lunchtime or after work and get the AA out to have a look/recover me.
Any pointers as to what this is likely to be, apart from expensive that is!!