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Offline Gash

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ok puzzled
« on: 29 April 2012, 19:29 »
Right when I had the engine bay open earlier i decided to check my coolant and found it filled with crap.

White ish on the top and when i put my fibger in it was brown (lol!)
So obviously oil in my coolant (again)
Around a year ago this happened and i changed my oil cooler as it was the cause. Is it likely this could happen again, bought it new from gsf.

This has only happened within the last two weeks.

Iv been having some bad running issues lately too. was over winter, just a misfire and lack of power, changed leads, sparks, coil relay 30 and it was fine for a few weeks, now came back so I though relay 167 to change but that clicks fine when the ignition is on crank (the misfire has been happening longer than the oil)

I hate to ask but likelihood of head gasket gone?
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Offline F17BAD

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Re: ok puzzled
« Reply #1 on: 29 April 2012, 19:48 »
one of my 16v abf mk3s did this

ended up like this, and the car died whilst i as 10 miles away from home



Could be a crap quality part from GSF
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Offline Wayne

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Re: ok puzzled
« Reply #2 on: 29 April 2012, 20:25 »
Flush it out and see if it comes back, easy way to confirm if it is the cooler again is to bypass it.
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Offline AudiA8Quattro

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Re: ok puzzled
« Reply #3 on: 29 April 2012, 21:07 »
Quote from: F17BAD on 29 April 2012, 19:48
one of my 16v abf mk3s did this

ended up like this, and the car died whilst i as 10 miles away from home



Could be a crap quality part from GSF

mmmm chocolate  :grin:

Answer to OP's question, try bypassing oil cooler as Wayne already said  :smiley:
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Offline search

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Re: ok puzzled
« Reply #4 on: 29 April 2012, 21:21 »
looks like classic head gasket gone.
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Offline AdamBeevers

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Re: ok puzzled
« Reply #5 on: 29 April 2012, 21:29 »
Quote from: search on 29 April 2012, 21:21
looks like classic head gasket gone.

ditto.
And you say it was misfiring... not a good sign :(
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Offline Gash

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Re: ok puzzled
« Reply #6 on: 29 April 2012, 22:10 »
the misfiring comes and goes though, i think its the dizzy for that as happens more in bad weather.

last month i covered 2000 miles in 3 weeks and didnt miss a beat, even had a 800mile round trip to belguim and was fine.

i think its the cooler again as just had a drive in it,

heated up to 90 at its usual rate (5-10 minutes) stayed there didnt go above at all and i drove for a fair bit, no bad smell or anything too.

Looked in the expantion tank and can see theres still water in there.

Going to flush it tomorrow, how can i bypass the oil cooler?
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Offline stainesy

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Re: ok puzzled
« Reply #7 on: 29 April 2012, 22:46 »
so you are not loosing water and your oil dont have coolant in it? maybe it is the cooler then if you no from experience before it could well be.
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