Anthony Day
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Buy a Range Rover with 2 mates for £1500 2 weeks before you leave for a road trip across Europe. What could go wrong?
After driving though France, Belgium, Luxenbourg, Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia with only mild problems; such as a little bit of high water temperature when driving over the Alps, only to end up on the side of a German Autobahn in a steamy mess. The radiator had given up in a spectacular way, the plastic bottom section being blown off the metal part. This should have set my alarm bells ringing to something more terminal then just a over heating issue. So we got a new radiator air mailed from the UK over to Germany, fitted it and then realised when bleeding the cooling system that the bubbles never stopped. Once warm it was emptying all the coolant in about 200m worth of driving.
Managed to get it back to the UK after a lot of hassle and many favours.
Today i took the head off and found that No.5 has a crack in the head running from the injector port across to the centre of the cylinder. The head gasket seems fine, as does the block. I'm assuming the problem was caused by the crack in the head, so i'm on the hunt for a head.
Is there anything else i should check???
Who knew that the only part that would fail on the trip was the bit made by BMW.
After driving though France, Belgium, Luxenbourg, Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia with only mild problems; such as a little bit of high water temperature when driving over the Alps, only to end up on the side of a German Autobahn in a steamy mess. The radiator had given up in a spectacular way, the plastic bottom section being blown off the metal part. This should have set my alarm bells ringing to something more terminal then just a over heating issue. So we got a new radiator air mailed from the UK over to Germany, fitted it and then realised when bleeding the cooling system that the bubbles never stopped. Once warm it was emptying all the coolant in about 200m worth of driving.
Managed to get it back to the UK after a lot of hassle and many favours.
Today i took the head off and found that No.5 has a crack in the head running from the injector port across to the centre of the cylinder. The head gasket seems fine, as does the block. I'm assuming the problem was caused by the crack in the head, so i'm on the hunt for a head.
Is there anything else i should check???
Who knew that the only part that would fail on the trip was the bit made by BMW.