Hi,
Over the last few weeks at some point I seem to have got a small leak in my radiator.

I'm part ex'ing my car in about 3 months time (for a Mazda 3 sport) so I'm wanting to spend as little as possible on keeping my beloved car going until then.

So I've a couple of questions. Has anyone tried things like radweld, i'm not too sure about stuff like that as I'm sure it can make things even worse.

Also I've noticed my coolant tank is right down on 'min' so it needs topping up. But as a complete novice on this kind of this (well, the car has run trouble free for 9 years) I'm not sure about topping up the system.

I've got some deironised (spelling?) water and some coolant.
Do I just mix these together and put them into the coolant tank, or do I put the coolant into the coolant tank and the water into the radiator cap. I feel silly for not knowing really

Cheers
Andrew

Mix the coolant & water out of the system, about a 60% water 40% coolant mix will do. Just tip it in the expansion tank. As long as the level hasn't dropped below the level of the pipe at the bottom of the tank you sound have no air lock problems. Never used rad-weld, so can't comment there.


Mazda3........... :-k

Thanks for the speedy reply.
Cheers

[quote="andrewpmoore"]Thanks for the speedy reply....[/quote]

Well there is nothing on tele is there

Except the the FA Cup Final... The gunners won on penaltys, woot!..

f*** gunners foul play or what

an Arsene Wenger had the cheek afterwards to say that united were outplayed an only made it a "little" difficult to win, Bo**ox!! Arsenal got lucky "again"

Fair play to thierry Henry tho cause he actually said that man U were the better team an were unlucky... thats TRUE sportsmanship in my opinion

Robbed!!! and twatty cole said "we deserved to win"
it was the lehmen show!!!

Sorry for the Hi-Jack of the thread.. I agree, we didn't deserve to win the way we played and were lucky not to have 2 or 3 goals scored against us throughout the game. Lehman had a good game, but Toure and Senderos defended well aswell. I think we only had like 5 shots on goal, so the offensive was crap. At the end of the day we were totally outplayed by united..

Its never good when it goes to penaltys, especially when its for some silverwear...

in the interview i heard Wenger said ManU played better but the same thing happened to arsenal 4 years ago versus Liverpool when Arsenal outplayed them and got mugged in the last 8 minutes

Hail Jens Lehmann

Back to the topic............ if you're gettin rid then radweld works ok but i wouldnt use it if i was keepin it

[quote="essex-lad"]Back to the topic............ if you're gettin rid then radweld works ok but i wouldnt use it if i was keepin it[/quote]

Thanks, do you stick the radweld into the radiator itself then I guess?.

Time to hijack my own thread!

Tried so start the car this morning and the battery is dud, so quickly grabbed a lift off my wife to work, but forgot to check the type of battery I need to get to replace the current one.

I've got a 96 1.5 GXi, anyone know which battery is needed so I can try and get one in my lunchbreak today.

ps why does everything start to go wrong as soon as I decide to sell? Maybe the car is jealous!

now sorted with the battery