#16: Re: Oil in coolant bottle :( Author: Salty_jon, Location: Ashbourne derbyshirePosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:51 pm ---- 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
#17: Re: Oil in coolant bottle :( Author: deanparkr, Location: United KingdomPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:59 pm ----
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
#18: Re: Oil in coolant bottle :( Author: giveitsomebar, Location: redditchPosted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:41 pm ---- 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
#19: Re: Oil in coolant bottle :( Author: retta, Location: leedstown, cornwallPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:32 am ---- 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.
#20: Re: Oil in coolant bottle :( Author: Danny., Location: PeterboroughPosted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 7:33 am ----
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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