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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: GPT27 on 28 October 2005, 16:22

Title: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: GPT27 on 28 October 2005, 16:22

Drove to work this morning, nothing unusual at all happened.

Left my car for 5 or so hours, got in it at lunch time and drove away, coolant warning light was flashing, checked the bottle, it seemed empty, chucked a pint of water in it, drove about 1 mile, parked and left it for another few hours, checked the coolant and the full pint was still there.

I put another pint in and drove home, car behaved perfectly normally.

I don't check the coolant regularly but it was serviced about less than 2 weeks ago and the coolant was replaced so it should've been full.

Any ideas?

I checked the dipstick and the oil filler cap and the oil looked fine.

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: Judderi on 28 October 2005, 16:25

Who serviced it? John Wayne?

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: bretttuk on 28 October 2005, 17:35

Mine does this too, one time coolant seems ok .. other times its empty ... not got round to checking but probably blockage or leak somewhere..

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: Organisys on 28 October 2005, 20:10

Get a blue coolant header tank cap from GSF. Might stop some steam loss ?
 :smiley:

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: Mr Blue on 28 October 2005, 20:58

Ive got this problem. Goes down about half a pint. Gonna try the blue cap mod 2moro morning

you can get a dye that you put in your coolant which makes it easy to pin point leaks.

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: rubjonny on 29 October 2005, 09:08

common spots for leaks are the 2 flanges on the block, the one on the front with the temp senders in and the one on the right hand side that goes to the heater matrix.

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: baz_the_man62 on 29 October 2005, 14:46

you might wanna check around your water pump, mine was leaking sometimes but then it would seal itself up again... didnt bother fixing it.

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: Diluxe on 29 October 2005, 16:59

i used to get this till i got rid of all the air locks.............................

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: monzablue16v on 02 November 2005, 09:33

You might also find the thermostat housing has not been fitted correctly which causes it to drop the coolant when the engine warms up but if not a long distance Thermostat doesn't open and no water leak.

Title: Re: Where did my coolant go?
Post by: zxrmatt on 02 November 2005, 14:09

Mine was coming out through the coolant expansion header tank seem, when it had been running for some time.

Changed tank and was fine for a while, then leaking from radiator a few months later. Radiator then needed replacing .