Hi all!
My first post in the ‘new’ forum. I was worried when I came back to the old one and saw it all locked down! What a relief to see it lives on here! For some reason my firefox spell checker doesn’t work here though.
I have a problem - One (I hope only one) of my coolant hoses has a nasty leak that squirts rusty coloured water all over the engine which then dribbles up and over the top of the bonnet when driving It looks like a large pinhole in the hose and squirts a good 12 inches.
I’ve managed to track down the culprit and have taken some pictures of it…
I’ve tried to outline the faulty pipe in nice pink.
(oops just noticed in the last pic the horizintal pink lines should be higher)
I’ve got larger versions (no pink outline though) here in case you can’t make out what’s where…
Now the problem I have is that I don’t know what these hoses are called in order to get a new one. Do you good folk know what I should be ordering?
And is this the best/cheapest pleace to get them from?.. http://www.mx5parts.co.uk/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=hose&x=0&y=0
Now I have a crappy horrible cold at the mo and the pipe is in a really awkward place so I did get a mechanic to look at it for me in case I wasn’t up to the job and he quoted me appx £75 all in (25 parts n 50 lab).
That seems a lot to me so am wondering again if this is going to be a can of worms or easy peasy? I’m worried that when removing the faulty pipe I will almost certainly touch the other pipes around it and then WILL they start to leak/break/split as well?
Which is when I looked at the above www.mx5parts.co.uk page they had ‘sets’ of pipes - which made me wonder if one of these sets will do ALL the pipes in this region?
I’m also guessing that as the water is very rusty coloured it will do the car good to flush the system and get some antifreeze in there. Actually that brings up another question - If I paid a garage to do a full service around 1 or 2 years ago should the coolant water still be bright blue or the colour of antifreeze they used shouldn’t it? OR does a full service mean they just check the level of the water/coolant?
I know distilled water should be used - but am wondering if pre-boiled water from my kettle is useable instead?
Any hints n tips or advice would be great.
Thanks
Matt