High temperature

[stuuts123]

Hi,

My car is running slightly hotter than usual, and starting to creep up towards the 3/4 mark, ive not had much use out it and dont know if this is normal checked the hoses under bonnet from radiator and seem to be hot going in but cold coming out at the bottom. checked all bleed points and all seem to be full of water

Im going to have the thermostat checked in case its sticking shut? where exactly is it? pics would help lol
is there a bleed point on the radiator? cant seem to see 1.


Anybody had this before or know or anything else i should be looking for?

Thanks in advance

Stuart

 

[MrBlueSky]

Are you loosing any water, even a small amount, from the overflow tank?
If so might be the waterpump. I'm an expert now that I had exactly that problem last year.
Thanks to Simon for directing me straight to it.
Was running fine when full but slowly showed eratic overheating as the level droped. No sign of water leakage as amounts were small and evaporated off.

 

[stuuts123]

Are you loosing any water, even a small amount, from the overflow tank?
If so might be the waterpump. I'm an expert now that I had exactly that problem last year.
Thanks to Simon for directing me straight to it.
Was running fine when full but slowly showed eratic overheating as the level droped. No sign of water leakage as amounts were small and evaporated off.

I dont think so, ive had the car since march but only put about 40 miles on it so its hard to tell, the heaters are working ok and heater matrix pipes get roasting as expected, just not the main cooling pipe back from the rad

 

[MrBlueSky]

Sounds similar to me.
40 miles is not really enough to get everything up to temp and running (and loosing ) water.
I could use mine on short journeys for months and only drop a few inches but problem is once the engine starts drawing air not water.
Water pumps are a weakness so it should certainly be high on your list.
It is so hard to get to that even experienced mechanics might miss the tell tale drips.

 

[stuuts123]

ideal thanks, ill get the stat taken out to see if it still gives the issues, if so ill look at the water pump replacement, dont happen to know where the stat is?

Stuart

 

[Ben123]

There is a guide on replacing the thermostat in the knowledge base “how to” section. Sadly though, all photos have been lost thanks to photobuckets policy change.

If you do it yourself, if you can take some photos of the process, that would be very cool.


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[Jamesv6]

There is a guide on replacing the thermostat in the knowledge base “how to” section. Sadly though, all photos have been lost thanks to photobuckets policy change.

If you do it yourself, if you can take some photos of the process, that would be very cool.


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Perhaps [mention=387,#000000]k1ano[/mention] can help ?

 

[Jamesv6]

A bit crap

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