VZCALAIS190
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Hey guys
I've been having a bit of trouble with the cooling system of my VZ Calais (alloytec190) couple months after buying it. I have replaced the radiator cap as I found it was snapped which led to me thinking it was the cause of the overheating, so I flushed the whole system and filled it with water only for testing purposes for a couple days and had no problems with overheating so I flushed the system once again and filled it up with measure of 50% coolant 50% water (purchased from Holden red coloured coolant) and let it run without the cap to bleed the system of any air pockets (also used the bleeding screw on the top left hand of the radiator). It ran well for a couple weeks (needle just over 1/4) then I noticed a slight increase in temperature which the needle reached just over half way. Yesterday on my way back from work on acceleration the heat needle shot up to 3/4 and went back down to just over 1/4 when I let go of the accelerator.. does not overheat on idle sits just above 1/4...it's really frustrating me real worried it may cause some damage! Any help will be very much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
I've been having a bit of trouble with the cooling system of my VZ Calais (alloytec190) couple months after buying it. I have replaced the radiator cap as I found it was snapped which led to me thinking it was the cause of the overheating, so I flushed the whole system and filled it with water only for testing purposes for a couple days and had no problems with overheating so I flushed the system once again and filled it up with measure of 50% coolant 50% water (purchased from Holden red coloured coolant) and let it run without the cap to bleed the system of any air pockets (also used the bleeding screw on the top left hand of the radiator). It ran well for a couple weeks (needle just over 1/4) then I noticed a slight increase in temperature which the needle reached just over half way. Yesterday on my way back from work on acceleration the heat needle shot up to 3/4 and went back down to just over 1/4 when I let go of the accelerator.. does not overheat on idle sits just above 1/4...it's really frustrating me real worried it may cause some damage! Any help will be very much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!