he broke the thermoste or how ever you spell it

Matty/Olly,

Stop it with the sigs.

Dont make me release the hounds!

Make the most of it mate because when you get a house and other responsabilities you won't have a decent car no more

well still over heats

its not thermoste and wired fan to switch so that works again now

but the heaters are cold even when car red hot any ideas

Make the most of it mate because when you get a house and other responsabilities you won't have a decent car no more

very very very true

Usually a coolant leak or head gasket when that happens. Have you checked the coolant level?? Check the radiator and header tank for the fluid level and also see if there's any oil in it....it'll be easy to spot if there is, it'll look like a rainbow. Also have a look on the under side of the oil filler cap....if it looks like salad cream then it's more than likely to be head gasket.

the water level the same and no salad cream on oil cap either

well still over heats

its not thermoste and wired fan to switch so that works again now

but the heaters are cold even when car red hot any ideas

Have you bled the coolant system? Not an air lock in it is there?

When you refilled the cooling system how did you do it? (I'm presuming you've swapped the thermostat).

if that running it with the cap off yeah and squezing the pipes

luke says head gasket

but found out on mondeo thing that i could be Water Pump and Temperature Sender unit failures as they go easy

how easy are these to change

Temperature sender wouldn't stop the heaters warming up though, and usually the temp gauge in the cluster would stop working too.

Does sound like head gasket to me too but if there's no trace of oil in the coolant then it's difficult to say.

Make sure that both the radiator and header tank levels are correct....sometimes the header tank can be full but the radiator's empty!

This post was last modified: 24-04-2008 04:19 PM by Roger_Sausage.

so its the head gasket

right need to find out the year of mondeo now lol

Broken it already lol...

Joking...

Hope you can get it sorted Olly....

is it pressurising?

I had a frontera that would pressurise the header tank so it lookedlike there was water in it, but ther was nothing in the block.

all the pipes go solid if thats what you mean