Engine temp going up and blowing cold air

1. stokelad84 L-plater Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 79 1.4 Furio 2000

   #1 28th November 2010, 14:05

   Through the heaters? is this because its frozen although i put a big bottle of anti-freeze in....After i noticed the temp climbing i went back home before it hit the red mark and the light came on. Will this cause it damage? it was running fine by the way.
2. user_41869 Frequent Poster Joined: Feb 2010 stoke on trent Posts: 741 saxo vtr

   #2 28th November 2010, 14:07

   Air lock by sounds of it bleed the system
3. stokelad84 L-plater Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 79 1.4 Furio 2000

   #3 28th November 2010, 14:12

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by anna2009 Air lock by sounds of it bleed the system

   Ok cheers mate.
4. stokelad84 L-plater Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 79 1.4 Furio 2000

   #4 28th November 2010, 15:25

   Just put some anti-freeze in, well i say some it was about 200 ml then it was full? but brown rusty water it was?
5. ct7331 Infrequent Poster Joined: Sep 2009 Solihull Posts: 143 MK2 Saxo VTR Breaking

   #5 28th November 2010, 15:59

   Ideally you want to flush the whole system out and bleed it. Bleeding it, is letting the air out not adding anti freeze to it. Theres a guide somewhere
6. stokelad84 L-plater Joined: Jul 2009 Posts: 79 1.4 Furio 2000

   #6 28th November 2010, 16:03

   Ok thank you, i put it on the queries section so this can be deleted now.
7. user_44872 Regular Poster Joined: Jun 2010 Tamworth Posts: 476 Black and Blue Vtr

   #7 29th November 2010, 16:41

   this happened to me the other day mate, running my car while de iced the windscreen got in and noticed it was climbing up temp so whacked it off opened the bonnet and noticed had bit of slush so whacked anti freeze in squeezed pipes and left till after work jumped in it drove and after that the heaters started working again after good run luckily didnt have anything bad or anything seriously wrong so was lucky lol
8. chinkostu Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Aug 2008 The wrong carpark Posts: 5152 Xantia 1.9TD

   #8 30th November 2010, 07:30

   make sure you're bleeding it when you top it back up, otherwise you could get some nasty airlocks and melt stuff!
9. nash_sax L-plater Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 55

   #9 30th November 2010, 13:01

   can someone post a guide to bleeding the system please, i could do with it myelf
10. Jungle Established Member Joined: Sep 2008 Sheffield Posts: 1206 106 Rallye Turbo

    #10 30th November 2010, 13:20

    open the bleed nipples and run it till coolant is coming out of them all