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 Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:51 pm |
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Joined: Dec 31, 2010
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Location: Ashbourne derbyshire
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Does your car have an oil cooler. As if this starts to leak you would get oil in the water without the signs of a head gasket failure. More common on diesels for this fault but possibly worth looking into
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| 206 sold but can\'t wait to get another. Swaps for a Leon Cupra anyone? | |
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:59 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: United Kingdom
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| Salty_jon wrote: |
| Does your car have an oil cooler. As if this starts to leak you would get oil in the water without the signs of a head gasket failure. More common on diesels for this fault but possibly worth looking into |
Not sure, its just a petrol 1.4LX. I shall see if I can dig it out on the manual
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Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:41 pm |
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Joined: Nov 16, 2010
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Location: redditch
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if its only a 1.4 doubt it will have an oil cooler, i think the 5 year thing means to completely get all the oil out of the water system as it would be hard to flush it all out in one go
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:32 am |
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Joined: Mar 01, 2010
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Location: leedstown, cornwall
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may sound odd (not sure if any help or not..), but when checking the anti-freeze level a month or two ago mine had an oily black/brown looking sludge in the water/coolant bottle, and was caked right around the inside of the bottle, like wet mud. We checked the oil and there was no scummy/milky bits in/around it, and the car was running fine.
We drained the coolant and flushed it right out, then cleaned the inside of the bottle - was told after that sometimes mixing different colour coolants can make the bottle/fluid go muddy/mank inside.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:33 am |
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Joined: Aug 01, 2010
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Location: Peterborough
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| Seabook wrote: |
can do a compression test.
but surely won't cost that much for the head gasket job to be done properly. |
It is a big cost.. Because the heads may need skimming...
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| Peugeot 206 1.4LX - Sold
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