The tank is empty, if we are looking at the right tank

I called our garage and he advised me to top it up half way with water, drive for 15 mins and then see if there level has gone down tomorrow morning. The garage we use is a Bongo garage which we found advertised on bongofury.

We do not have a coolant alarm, as far as I know. Will check the coolant levels tomorrow. We are due to take our bongo for a service next week, but the garage we normally take it to is 30 mins drive away, and I keep reading on the boards that it is foolish to let an non-bongo garage look at the cool...

I don't think it was that, based on the descriptions given in your thread, and the location that the arrow points to on your picture. I thought the noise could even be coming from somewhere under the bonnet, but that is where my partner and I disagree. If anything it sounded like it was coming from ...

The other day when we were driving our bongo back from the North, we got stuck in a traffic jam for about half an hour. It was a hot (but windy) day and I had already been complaining that my "blower" had not been blowing out cold air, so we had had our windows down whilst we were in the j...

We have a lovely local mechanic, who was honest enough to say that he was a Bongo virgin when we went to visit him earlier in the year. Originally, we needed something fixed that he had no real knowledge of, and he actually told us that it might be better to take it to a specialist. It was after the...

Thanks for the suggestions. Our main apprehension about taking it to the garage is that the garage is a long way away (we took it to an supposed "Bongo specialist"), so going back there isn't the easiest of tasks, given the hours that we both work. We called the garage and were told that i...

My partner knows as little about car maintenance as I do, unfortunately.

The noises and "coughing" from the engine only started after we last had it seen to by a mechanic, which is what we are most concerned about, since we spent quite a lot of money...

My partner drove the Bongo today, and he said it was making that noise again, but it hadn't been raining....

We use the car about once a week. Sometimes we notice it when we turn the engine on (when it has been raining, we think) and sometimes we don't. When we do notice it, it is a constant "shshshshshshshsh" type noise

We recently had some work done on our bongo (new battery, head gasket and cam belt), but since getting the vehicle back from the garage, we have noticed some strange noises (compared to before!). Whenever we start the engine after it has been raining, we can hear a regular "shshshshshsh" n...

Haha Helen - I wouldn't want to mess with you. I work in a call centre myself at the mo (incoming - so I won't be calling any of you guys, don't worry!), so don't want to be too rude, for fear of karmic retribution in the shape of my own irate callers! Call blocker sounds like a good idea, but I wou...

Haha, excellent ideas.

I just had another call, but the telephonist was really polite so I couldn't bear to be rude. I begged her to stop calling and she said that their system was showing this as the first call since Tues...very odd.

I called Lifesure a few days ago to ask for an insurance quote, and got as far as date of birth, when I was promptly shut down as I am under 30. Fair enough, I thought, I'm glad you told me now, rather than letting me go through all of the details first... I was going to hang up when the telephonist...