Overfilled Coolant on Fiat Punto

it won't hurt, there is facility in the cap to let pressure/fluid go. remove the pipe at the bottom of the tank or get a sucker and remove some.

mrcheerful

You could take the hose off the expansion tank (reservoir) and drain it from there, as that's a lot smaller, and things should be more controllable - careful that it doesn't soak anything electrical nearby though.

Or you could use some form of syringe/small pump to suck some out, or the absorbent sponge/rag thing should work. But yes, I'd avoid siphoning it, just in case!

There's only one hose that has an adustable jubilee clip on it though (and it's a huge house near the bottom!) - the others seem to have some other kind of clip that I'm not sure how to undo - I suppose I could just priseit off and then put a new standard jubilee clip back on.

Might just try and do the rag thing - people seem to suggest that running it as is probably wouldn't really be a problem, but I'd be happier if I could at least get some out. I'm sure that as soon as I force a towel or something down into it it will probably displace a fair bit of the water anyway.

Trigger pack nozzle, like from kitchen cleaner or plant sprayer avoids getting mouthul of antifreeze.

Adam

Ah, now there's a plan! I knew there would be a solution out there I couldn't think of that would be spot on. If I do this I could even squirt it back into the antifreeze bottle and save wasting it.

Unless that's an "antifreeze/water mixture, in the correct proportions" bottle, don't do it. Get another bottle, and fill it up with the right concentration of antifreeze/water, just in case. Don't put an antifreeze/water mixture back in a bottle of neat aunty freeze though.

Ah yes, it was a bottle of pre-mixed. It is empty now after my mishap this morning though! If I put it back in then I can keep it for if it needs topping up in future.

Get a big plastic syringe from the chemist or friendly med practice and suck it up via the filler.

Turkey baster :)

Turkey basters are a little slow but work well for things like this. Failing that a battery hydromter could be used - just clean it very well before you dip it in the next battery.

Pregnant pause !!!!!

use a turkey baister to suck it out, I use one at work, for the very same thing if we've a customer who's overfilled summit !

Hi all,

Thanks everyone for replies/ideas - especially Adam who provided the solution I went for. Did it this morning with a trigger from some old kitchen cleaner - took a while but worked a treat, so thanks!