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No no anti freeze leaking just a worn out pipe that had been rubbing

Just incase any one is interested as these posts never seem to have a resolution. I took it to a different mechanic and within seconds he found that the pipe connecting the expansion bottle to the heater matrix had a tiny pin hole in it and was letting air in took him less than 10 minutes to...

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Easier said than done. It would be alright if I could find what’s causing it.

Can’t find any reason for it to be overheating now. I have tried everything. It’s fine driving around at 30 all day also happy to idol for hours. Even sat in stand still traffic and no problems. It only over heats now after a long drive at speed and it has to stop and have the heating off to...

So back on this again. I intended to rig the air con fans infront if the radiator to be on all the time to see if this helped with over heating. Turns out the passenger side fan doesn’t work even when connected directly to the battery so I have got the other fan to come on with the ignition...

My mechanic did it I assume he knows what he is doing

I have had this car since December and it’s used everyday if there was a problem with the head or cracked cylinder wouldn’t it have failed by now? Or at least gotten worse. Seems like I’m chasing faults round the cooling system

Yep the bottle said it’s for petrol and diesel. My mechanic tells me he has done every possible test he can to check the head but it’s never been tested after it’s overheated

Yes did the sniff test and it passed

So I think I got all of the air out and the white foam stopped coming out. My mechanic tells me that he got all the air out when he changed the rad. After a longish drive yesterday the system had lots of air in it again. The system is not leaking and it is pressurised. Where could this air be...

I don’t have a picture but it’s not think and sludgy. It’s a very fine pure white really fine disappears almost as it hits the air. It’s like the foam you get in kids bubble mixture

This hasn’t happened before coolant in the tank is collect once the bubbles pop. I topped the oil up as well oil looks fine

So it’s passed the news paper test and I thought I’d have another go at blessing air out of the system. This has been going on for months now I have bleed it a lot of times I know what it usually looks like. This morning as well as a lot of air I have been getting a white foam from the breather...

Thanks I will give that a go. Do the two small fans in front of the rad have anything to do with cooling the engine or are they just for the heating system. Is there a way of testing them? I’ve never seen them on

Please explain the rolled up news paper test

It’s a new radiator it came from my old car which never overheated.

Yep fan definitely works

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Yes brand new fan