Hi, Hopefully this is very simple. On a Rover metro/100 when you start the car, should the radiator cooling fan also start straight away?
Cooling system damaged, with a bit of coolant leakage, but problem seems to be that the coolant is boiling over cause the fan isn't turning. Is it common for the motor to just go and doesnt seem to be any damage to the fan unit.
Thanks for looking at this one. Bob
============= The fan is thermostatically controlled. It only switches on when the engine is very hot - NOT at startup. I've never had one fail on 4 Metros so my experience suggests that they're quite reliable.
You don't say HOW the cooling system is damaged but the boiling over is almost certainly not due to fan failure. Try fixing the damage and possibly flush the system to cure the problem.
Cic.
The message from colin snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (Bob) contains these words:
No.
If you're losing coolant with bubbles in the header tank, that sounds far more like a head gasket than a cooling system fault.
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
To which there's a mass chorus of "Is it a K-series?"
The message from Adrian contains these words:
If it's a 100 - then yes, it is.
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
The 1.1 was a K, too?
I know the 1.4 was - I bought an inlet manifold off a GTi today... (don't ask) - but I thought that was the smallest K?
Guy King ( snipped-for-privacy@zetnet.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Oh, yeh, then there's the diseasel...
The message from Adrian contains these words:
Yes.
The message from Adrian contains these words:
Ah, yes, sorry, I rather assumed petrol.
Which IIRC was French....
Tim S Kemp ( snipped-for-privacy@timkemp.karoo.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
You're getting predictable, Tim.
I prefer "consistent"
I prefer "Factual"
I prefer "Informative"
Thanks for all the replies everybody.
Just to clear up model; its a 1998 100 1.1L petrol.
Removed radiator on Sat, and it is actually leaking, so looking about a replacement. I think it might have been hit by a mis guided skyrocket over halloween (!!!!!!!!!)
Ignoring damage like that, old age, or road debris causing a puncture, is there anything else that could actually cause a leak, like could it overheat enough to melt part of radiator.
Cheers for the help Bob
The message from colin snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com (Bob) contains these words:
Really, it's most likely to be old age.
GUESS WHAT, TAKEN TO GARAGE AND IT IS THE HEAD GASKET THATS GONE. Now does anyone have any good links to sites that give a good explanation of the replacement process. Ta
A K series head gasket failure? Never... That'd be like a rusty Alfasud.. Never happens...
Meanwhile, in the real world
"they all do that, sir"
fwd vauxhalls -hmm for me it would have to be Renalts, all of em
souls
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