snakesoup wrote:motoz can you elaborate on this a little more for us ? when you say you boiled it 12 times before? talk us through it
To be honest it all happened quite quickly. I live in the hills. The road from the city to my house is relatively steep and puts quite a lot of load on the engine.
Once the problem started every time I drove up the hill temps would climb very fast from about 95 degrees to 120 - 130 deg in a matter of seconds.
The motor was losing coolant out of the system very quickly,
I just kept topping it up and trying to get a resolution to the problem. Driving down the hills was fine and across the flats. Under load it was a problem. In the week and a half I tried to get it sorted it boiled 12 times. As posted the third dealer I went to acknowledged the issue and sent a report to MMAL for a replacement motor.
I haven't been told specifics so I can only assume it was losing coolant into the cylinders. They use about 9lt in the system. The level would drop so quickly that the inlet to the motor side of the radiator was cold yet the return was boiling hot. This would vent past the cap and be boiling in the overflow bottle.
The day before it was due to go in for the report I had to drive it home from work. I did a full system flush, replaced the thermostat and coolant. Bleed the system and started the drive home of about 30 kms. It boiled within 5 min of leaving work, all the coolant in the radiator was gone. There was oil blown out of the engine cap all over the rocker cover and the Provent was contaminated also.
It ended up on a flatbed truck and dropped of to the dealers for assessment.
What amazes me is during all that the ECU never logged a code nor did it ever go into limp mode.
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