Where has your radiator cracked?

[_R_J_K_]

I parked the car at the shops yesterday and realised I had overshot the end of the car park, so I reversed it back and there was a small pool of coolant on the ground. Pop the bonnet, the top radiator hose is coming off, so I try to jam it back on, but it pops off (and sprays me with coolant).

So, buy some water from Woolies, drive it back to my mates place, bleed it a couple of hours later. Then he spots a bit of coolant trickling under the top radiator hose mouth, and concludes it's probably a cracked radiator. It was probably time for a new one anyway, as I did a coolant flush about a month ago and the top hose mouth on the radiator had been half eaten away.

So, where has yours cracked?

[VSPantha]

I noticed my overflow bottle was empty one day... opened the radiator cap and it was down about 1 inch from the top. Found a leak bottom drivers side corner, half way up the drivers side and another near the tranny cooler outlet. There was also a bit of tranny fluid in the coolant.... ended up replacing the radiator.

[greenacc]

My original radiator first died when the top hose neck blew off. Got the side tank replaced then the core sprang a leak about a year later.

[The1]

yep mine was starting to crack at the top hose, was getting a coolant stain for a while so replaced it before it tottally cracked, new radiator was only $60, i did look at getting a alloy one but $500!! Next time maybe.

[Devils_Thunder]

my old vs did a side tank twice

[Thomas1]

Mine cracked at the top hose outlet

[excalibur]

core split in my vp and friends vs