beko1987
New member
Evening all!
I last checked the coolant on Monday, and all was well.
Myself and my lovely girlfriend drove to asda earlier to go shopping. Everything was fine.
An hour later, we come out, and I notice trailing water from about 2 parking spaces away from the cat, and notice it's very wet under the car. I pop the bonnet, and there is no coolant.
B*ggar!
I had a good poke around the engine bay, and there were no loose hoses, nothing blatent. The water seems to be dripping from the middle of the block somewhere, running under the sump and dripping onto the car park.
We called the AA, since that's what I pay them for! The man comes out 3 hours later, and diagnoses a leaky thermostat housing, and puts some radweld or similar (holts bottle) through the system, and it's still leaking.
It seems to be coming from the drivers side of the block, but I know no more than that! We drove gingerly home, with the AA man following and it is now parked on the drive safely.
I aim to have a better look tomorrow, and have thermostat in mind, but the AA man also mentioned the water pump. Has anyone ever had their puma empty itself in under an hour? It drives fine, temp is fine, heaters still work hot and cold. The coolant level had dropped slightly on the drive home, but I'm betting that it will be empty in the morning
Can anyone offer any advice before I don tools tomorrow and get looking
Thanks
I last checked the coolant on Monday, and all was well.
Myself and my lovely girlfriend drove to asda earlier to go shopping. Everything was fine.
An hour later, we come out, and I notice trailing water from about 2 parking spaces away from the cat, and notice it's very wet under the car. I pop the bonnet, and there is no coolant.
B*ggar!
I had a good poke around the engine bay, and there were no loose hoses, nothing blatent. The water seems to be dripping from the middle of the block somewhere, running under the sump and dripping onto the car park.
We called the AA, since that's what I pay them for! The man comes out 3 hours later, and diagnoses a leaky thermostat housing, and puts some radweld or similar (holts bottle) through the system, and it's still leaking.
It seems to be coming from the drivers side of the block, but I know no more than that! We drove gingerly home, with the AA man following and it is now parked on the drive safely.
I aim to have a better look tomorrow, and have thermostat in mind, but the AA man also mentioned the water pump. Has anyone ever had their puma empty itself in under an hour? It drives fine, temp is fine, heaters still work hot and cold. The coolant level had dropped slightly on the drive home, but I'm betting that it will be empty in the morning
Can anyone offer any advice before I don tools tomorrow and get looking
Thanks