erm thats strange i rang a few dealers here in Birmingham most of them never had one because they said no on purchases em anymore but they can be orderd will take about 5 days but luckily one dealer had one so grabbed it. Yeh i was figuring maybe i need to drive the car aeound a bit let it wear in or soming (dont know if thats even possible ) so hopefully am gonna see how it goes today ive just been busy sorting out other stuff with the car.
i started it yesterday from cold and put the heaters on about after 5 mins and i start getting mild/luke warm air so i got chuffed and thought yeh when the temp guage rises up it'll be working plus i checked the heater martix hoses at the bulk head and they were pretty warmish, but sadly to my disappointment the temp gauge went up to about half and the air just got cold and those same hoses were cold now .
Like i said ive put in a brand new thermostat and heater matrix in and checked for an airlock all seems ok. Dont know if i mentioned it before but when my old rad (looked mint) was in car with the standard intercooler and no thermostat with the fan on constantly the temo guage never-ever went up and i mean never. Sadly this time the actuator and turbo decided to knock my rad really hard and boof that was the end of that rad. Tried radweld everythingbut no luck.
So i got a 2nd hand rad from someone on the forums and it was a bit rusty and not in the best of conditions and the owner goes it hodl water fine which infact it does. But since ive fitted that rad and the a Pace Intercooler (which sits in front and blocks off about 1/4 of the rad) ive noticed the temp guage starting to go up (few time the car started overheating) and this was before i put the thermostat in. Now ive put the thermostat in but havent really driven the car but am expecting the temp gauge to stay around half so i guess thats normal yeh?
Could there be a chance here that my rad is packed in too and thats effecting the hot heaters?? Like i said the fan is always on and i did place my hand over the rad at the bottom is kind of hot and around the top its pretty cool/cold. Could this mean anything???
Ive been trying to look for a brand spanking new rad but FORD are robbing £200 for it plus they have to order it and a lot of motor-factors dont have em though they have the xr2i ones!!!!!!!!
Anyone have a brand new rad pls?????????
Erm spose ya rad could be blocked, ya checked all your water hoses are ok and not blocked aswell? yeah without a thermostat your car would be running cold as its this that controls where ya temp sits really, my car sits at half way all the time never goes below and just goes abit above when in traffic, before I did the matrix I found me car ran hot all the time as I dont think the water was circulating properly! Someone said to me before i did it that my water pump could be getting lazy but then spose it would prob overheat then? Runnin out of ideas to be honest! Its a bastad when ya got no heaters as ya car steams up all the time aswell!
