Ray De Man
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- SII SSV REDLINE M6
Hi guys, hope you can help?
Yesterday coming back from shopping my car displayed the dreaded "over heating" message! The dial was in the red and climing, so had to pull over on the side street but car then displayed Drivetrain warning and car started to cough like it was gonna die!
I turned it off once stopped to see if fan would cool it down but no... So turned it off, fans went off, opened bonnet to see steam venting from coolent overflow (yellow dipstick thingy) with this burpling noise. I braved opening cap after noise stopped to see howmuch water i got and none was seen. So I asked a friendly guy if I can get some water, so armed with 5 bottles of water I start pouring.... 5 liters or so went in WTF where did it go?
So I started car everything normal apart from drivetain symbol still showing. Nursed it back towards home and again it started to overheat but fan kicked in and kept the coolent temp between 106-119 C. Got home checked water after it cooled to find approx 3 liters had evapourated (no puddles or water marks) so filled it up and let it idle to see if any air trapped. Temp was fine staying midway on gauge, checked for leaks and nothing, so turned it off and left over night.
Started this morning everything fine, even the Drivetrain warning had gone, drove down the road 60 kph and fine got to a 80 kph stretch and it started again, pulled over let the fan cool it (which it did) to half way and drove back home. On idle it making this whiny/droney noise somewhere in engine bay + erupting coolant.
Weekly checks of topping up water since I bought the car last year, which was bare minimal amounts of water + the usual other checks, oil etc...
So can someone please tell me whats going on? I checked the other forum pages which I understand but where the hell is my water going? Is this bad news and gonna be expensive. I 've only had this car since late Aug 2010, do you think i'll be cover under warrentty?
Thanks for any help in advance guy n gals.
Yesterday coming back from shopping my car displayed the dreaded "over heating" message! The dial was in the red and climing, so had to pull over on the side street but car then displayed Drivetrain warning and car started to cough like it was gonna die!
I turned it off once stopped to see if fan would cool it down but no... So turned it off, fans went off, opened bonnet to see steam venting from coolent overflow (yellow dipstick thingy) with this burpling noise. I braved opening cap after noise stopped to see howmuch water i got and none was seen. So I asked a friendly guy if I can get some water, so armed with 5 bottles of water I start pouring.... 5 liters or so went in WTF where did it go?
So I started car everything normal apart from drivetain symbol still showing. Nursed it back towards home and again it started to overheat but fan kicked in and kept the coolent temp between 106-119 C. Got home checked water after it cooled to find approx 3 liters had evapourated (no puddles or water marks) so filled it up and let it idle to see if any air trapped. Temp was fine staying midway on gauge, checked for leaks and nothing, so turned it off and left over night.
Started this morning everything fine, even the Drivetrain warning had gone, drove down the road 60 kph and fine got to a 80 kph stretch and it started again, pulled over let the fan cool it (which it did) to half way and drove back home. On idle it making this whiny/droney noise somewhere in engine bay + erupting coolant.
Weekly checks of topping up water since I bought the car last year, which was bare minimal amounts of water + the usual other checks, oil etc...
So can someone please tell me whats going on? I checked the other forum pages which I understand but where the hell is my water going? Is this bad news and gonna be expensive. I 've only had this car since late Aug 2010, do you think i'll be cover under warrentty?
Thanks for any help in advance guy n gals.