oh SH*T no anti freeze

[MiniDan]

Becasue of this thread I have just checked the pipes on the Jetta GTI I picked up yesterday.

Feels like the pipes are full of slush puppy Bugger.

Can't do anything now as the last of the anti-freze went in the other Jetta on Friday. Going to have to keep my fingers crossed that nothing happens.

Is there anything that can be done to help?

[redgolf]

all i can suggest is wrap up the engine with blankets or if you have a garage leave a heater in there with it to take the chill out the air

[mwep201081]

not wanting to sound too harsh but you have had over two days to check this and put some in.

it's not like the weather hit us totally unexpected!!

Everyone makes mistakes...Hopefully a lesson has been learned though

[emery1990]

Having neat antifreeze will kill your water pump, It will freeze at like something stupid, but youll end up over heating your engine by it not dispersing the heat efficiently as itll be too thick, If youve got a fractometer £20 from ebay, youd want it to have protection of around -15 to be safe, or colder if its beenm known to get colder than that!

[MiniDan]

Went out and stuck a load of old towels and blankets over the pipes.

Bolting the door after, and so on as there is a load of frozen water coming out of the bottom hose/radiator. Can't tell without removing the pipe. Bugger it!

[Ben Lessani]

Happened to me last year! http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=98959.0

New metal water pipe, radiator, heater matrix and a blown core plug!

From there on out, 50/50 mix on coolant to protect to -35 degs! I had mine tested in the 'other car' and its good for -15, but I'm flushing that and mixing it down to -30 as well.

[redgolf]

i hope everything is ok this morning minidan

luckily mine is fine i drove it last night and this morning and everything feels fine apart from not having a heater, but i had my trusty fishing cooker so that warmed up the inside nicely while i de iced the windows 

[Mr Blue]

A popped core plug is not fun to replace.

Mine had corrosion and started to leak in the summer and ive always used anit freeze.

Water pipes and heating on mk2's are a headache. Always something wrong

[redgolf]

ive noticed a small leak coming from the back of the engine it looks like it's inline with the manifold have you got any idea what it could be
i.e a gasket or split pipe something like that

cheers

[redgolf]

Well bad news on the m40 my car broke down
It lost all it's water and obviously overheated and now it doesn't hold any water
Sorry guys but I think my mk2 days are over