Shep_Cobain

Hi guys,

My Fiesta RS Turbo looses water and sometimes the heaters are freezing cold and dont warm up!

Next thing the heaters are warm but i have noticed my passenger footwell carpet is soaked.

I leave the car standing for a day or so and check my water in the expansion tank and its empty!

My temperature guage doesnt work and sometimes my radiator fan comes on even after 5minutes of driving on a freezing cold morning.

The main thing is the car loses water and the footwell is soaked.

What do you reckon the problem is guys?

Dicko&Vacant

iTrader: (3)

at a guess id deffo say heater matrix is fooked mate

Steve the Plumber

iTrader: (11)

Agreed, gotta be the heater matrix.

Shep_Cobain

it was only replaced less than 2 months ago by mk1lewis off here...

I have noticed when it is blowing sometimes i get intamitent squeeking?

liam-rst

iTrader: (1)

either heater matrix or water pipes havnt been put back on properly or leaking, can only be that m8

xr2wishy

iTrader: (2)

do you find the heater doesn't work till you give it some revs?
to me it sounds like the heater matrix has shat itself, i've replaced one once and was shot at a couple of months later.
so i got a new one last time.

tabetha

Defo matrix leaking by the sounds of it, unless you are unlucky and have a leak on the engine elsewhere, and a water leak into the car.
I always put in newdue to the hassle of doing the job, around £35 last time I bought one, most of the rads are polish origin and aluminum, which is nothing like as good as a decent copper one, I made this mistake with a mk3 astra with a new matrix, a job I'm having to do again to put in a genuine one, at £90, but it's roasting hot, in fact best heater I've ever known in a car, even in this weather it would be on fan1(of 4) and the temp setting turned halfway down, at the mo it's fan 2 or 3 with heat fully up to get same heat.
tabetha

xr2john

heater matrix without a doubt,wouldnt be running it like that or you will end up killing your engine aswell

Chip

iTrader: (3)

As above, its the matrix or the pipes in the car to give that combination of faults.

Does the engine run fine though?
If not then maybe the head gasket has gone and thats what keeps popping over things where it over pressurises the water system.

Silver'Scort

Heater Matrix popped, but as said above, would definately get a compression check done just to eliminate head gasket failure. As also said before, dont keep on running it with little or no water in the cooling system.