f**king car! (I'm ready to kill it)

After dumping £200 on a service on Friday, my car's heater matrix has decided to kick the bucket (I think?)

This morning I turned on heaters, and the windscreen started misting up? The heater didn't do anything to clear it, plus there is now a trickle of mucky water (sweet to the taste) in my passenger footwell. So is my heater matrix buggered?


When I stopped the car, there is coolant p**sing from the front of the car from the radiator area all over my driveway - is this part of the same problem?


Is there anything I can do immediately (today) to put a halt to it (read something about a bypass?).

I just don't have the money to fix it if it's a dash out job?, This on top of two new front tyres badly needed, and a replacement beam due to levels of dangerous play in my current one has just turned this car into a MONEY PIT over the weekend!!!

How tricky is it to take the dash out for someone (or two) with not a huge amount of experience, but some enthusiasm?

Dave

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any misfiring from cold?

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Bring on the Trumpets.

work through the list, easy peasy.

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Bring on the Trumpets.

Bypass

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Bring on the Trumpets.

Go and buy some k seal that will fix it untill you sort a new matrix

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cherry p1.....SOLD (regreting this)
blaze p2.....why did i buy this SOLD
Black p3

Which would be 18mm? or 22mm?

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k-seal... always people saying it wont work, will clog up the matrix. I've personally never seen it. I have seen a clogged rad from radweld, but never seen a problem with K-seal

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Could this have anything to do with being serviced on Friday? I've done precisely 100 miles?

Surely not, they would have just poured a litre of coolant in. (Overfilled maybe, and couldn't leave through the overfill?) (I'm not starting a witch hunt, I just have no idea how this thing works?)

In which case:

The the coolant in the radiator was pressurised, and this has popped my Heater matrix!?

Leading to suggest the gasket may be on its way out? So what are my next steps?

Dave

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Totally agree with this unfortunately.

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I'm glad you all mentioned this, as I've just been out to try and find some hose to bypass the matrix (with no luck).

Anyway we were looking around and thought it was an idea to turn the car on and see what was what (listen out for any miss firing form cold etc).

Started the car and all seems normal, no miss firing (a little bit of 'plinking' but I think that was the exhaust manifold or heat shield heating up).

Inside the car the blowers were on full but NO sign of condensation appearing on the windscreen and there was no sign of any further fluid leaking into the car (save what was there this morning), I took a (useless?) video:



So we risked taking it for a 5 min spin and everything seemed normal, the heaters were working and temperatures seemed normal.


Is it possible that the rad coolant was overfilled, this lead to a lot of pressure building up and caused it to find a way out through path of least resistance, squeezing through the connecting pipes to the matrix, or the bursting the matrix itself?

Rather stupidly (me not being a mechanic, or very smart), decided after the drive to open the rad cap and see what's what, and of course it gushed out under pressure all over the driveway

I'm going to do what jonnie205 suggested, run the car and leave over night - can I just have it sitting running for 10 mins and the drive to do this and pressurise properly, or shall I take it for another quick drive around the block.

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Also could someone explain to me what this means if the HG is going?

(I'd have thought it it failed, there wouldn't be a tight seal anymore, and therefore wouldn't be able to keep pressure, but we're saying if it stays pressurised, then = HG failure )

I guess, I shouldn't continue driving it then if this is the case? So what can be done?

I think I'll attempt Niall suggestion and thoroughly bleed it too ...

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Another thing, if youve just run it up to temp, if the thermostat has opened up, see if the top rad pipe is solid/pressurised

yeah....sounds about right!