POLL... Have you had any coolant system related issues?

haydn callow · Post by **haydn callow** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:54 pm

No problems to date but thanks only to Allens (Plymouth) who noticed a swollen top hose whilst giving my new bongo the once over for me a year ago.

ADAMD · Post by **ADAMD** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:19 pm

Yes

1) Tophose pin-prick - caused coolant loss, overheated

2) Metal pipe pin-prick - caused coolant loss, overheated
causing

3) Waterpump leaking - replaced.

1997 AFT 89,000 klm

helen&tony · Post by **helen&tony** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:34 pm

Hi
I've answered no, and I hope that this hasn't jinxed the Bongo. I keep an eye on things with a TM2, and one of Haydn's Low Water gauges.
Helen

The Great Pretender · Post by **The Great Pretender** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:38 am

Last Sunday I was at Wheel Quick with Mike fitting a flat plate heat exchanger for my veg oil conversion. We did the water side and it shocked me the the amount of external pipes on the cooling system.
We lost about a pint of coolant doing it but it caused an air lock.

Why or where im not shure, but if loosing so little coolant stops flow there is a design fault (as in water will take the route of least resistance and dosn't force out the air).

missfixit70 · Post by **missfixit70** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:46 am

I hope you've been taking photos of the veg oil conversion, I'm definitely getting drawn to the idea of being able to run 100% - better start a new thread tho, dont want to sidetrack this one

The Great Pretender · Post by **The Great Pretender** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 1:57 am

missfixit70 wrote:I hope you've been taking photos of the veg oil conversion, I'm definitely getting drawn to the idea of being able to run 100% - better start a new thread tho, dont want to sidetrack this one

I will cover it in full, but I was thinking that it should go in the members section. what do you think?

hatris · Post by **hatris** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:56 am

We voted no. Mike at Wheelquick did service and reported he could not find a single fault. Hope this continues for a while. Haven't had this much luck with brand new cars in the past. Think your idea to survey people and find out more about the bongo is a good one.

daveblueozzie · Post by **daveblueozzie** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:35 pm

Have voted no, but have also done preventative maintenance such as flippa's replacement hoses, Haydn's coolant alarm and the mason alarm.

MountainGoat · Post by **MountainGoat** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:37 pm

Same here Dave.

Forgot to mention that it was you and Karl (RoosterUK) who fitted my alarms for me. Ta very much!

Rhod · Post by **Rhod** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:45 pm

Like DBO, no, but have fitted the coolant & Mason alarms to reduce the chances. Seems logical to me that the more hoses a vehicle has, the more chance there is of something leaking eventually. The problem being not so much that you may get coolant loss at some point but that, as standard, you get no warning that you're losing it until it's too late.

POLL... Have you had any coolant system related issues?

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