[s-cars] Coolant

[Max Hoepli]

The car never overheats

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
To: "Max Hoepli" <mhoepli at vif.com>
Cc: <200q20v at audifans.com>; "Urq List" <urq at audifans.com>;
"Quattro at AudiFans" <quattro at audifans.com>; "audi s-cars list"
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Sent: 09, December 2006 14:04
Subject: Re: Coolant


>
> > I have a 1986 Audi Quattro, type 44, every 3 months/2,000 km. I have
> > to fill in about 500 ml. of antifreeze into reservoir, the red
> > warning light with thermometer symbol blinks and makes a noise at
> > first, then just blinks and disappears.
>
> I thought the red light was a high temp warning?  And low coolant is
> just an amber warning?
>
> > When the car is idling I
> > notice some steam rising from front left of car. Notice nothing
> > conspicuous under hood. The car performs well.
>
> Wherever that coolant is coming out, even if only as steam, there should
> be some crusty antifreeze residue, greenish, whitish or bluish probably.
>   It might be hard to find, of course, if it is in a place hidden by
> some other component.
>
> One thing to keep in mind with cooling systems, when you replace one
> leaking part, the new higher internal pressure will often take out the
> next weakest link (everything being the same age).  You could find
> yourself doing the radiator, expansion tank, hoses, heater core, etc.
>
> -- 
> Huw Powell
>
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