Hi guys,
Im in the middle of a european road trip and on thursday i did the nurburgring.
On finishing i looked at the temp gauge and it was above the red! The fan was on.
Immediatly parked up, turned the engine off and popped bonnet.
There was coolant spitting out the res, boiling over and was right at the top!
Left the car to cool down for 30 mins and then came back tovit and it was still very hot but drivable.
We had to move the car off site so drove it down the road but the engine still climbed in temp so got to the neqrest car park and rung the RAC. Opened bonnet while waiting and saw the coolant res had dropped right down.
Had the car recovered and now it has a suspected heat gasket failure.
Has anybody had this happen? Or is there something else it could be?
So now im in italy in a Opel Meriva which i drove around the stelvio pass yesterday and my beautiful Zed in somewhere in Germany.
Key points - engine fan turns on but not off until car has been left ffor hours to cool. Coolant res changed levels. Temp gauge stays high for a long time
HELP!!!