Hello everyone
I was looking for some advice, my car is loosing near enough a whole header tank of coolant every three weeks or so and idles pritty rough, some morning it will take a couple of turns over to get going and and I have to press the accelerator to get it going like its running on three.
It also seems to have a lot of hesitation and not much grunt behind it on the motorway.
After having a read around the first thing i checked was which head I have luckily its the 03G 103 308 C as you can see in the pictures so i guess i can rule out a cracked head.
I then took a log on vcds which came back with these figures im not sure if these look normal but ive been told if its at 2.99 then theres a problem.
https://mega.co.nz/#!l1NRUKDB!541Z_6alP9RpTgSeIUVns9xMMjN5Vr_lk8M0tZgJ8RI
This is the car idling (youtube)
https://youtu.be/O4mcvKd73iE
Water looks pritty clean aswell
Also noticed a puddle/ring of oil around the cap which is screwed tight so i dont know how thats getting out... currently using about a litre of oil every three months
Anyone have any suggestions as to what path i should take next ?
Im not sure if it could be the Egr cooler making it loose water but how would that explain the lack of power and then im thinking is it an injector seal thats gone.
Or is it a dogey head gasket :S
Maybe taking the egr off and temporarily blanking it off to see if thats sticking and causing the lack of power.
Thanks mike
I was looking for some advice, my car is loosing near enough a whole header tank of coolant every three weeks or so and idles pritty rough, some morning it will take a couple of turns over to get going and and I have to press the accelerator to get it going like its running on three.
It also seems to have a lot of hesitation and not much grunt behind it on the motorway.
After having a read around the first thing i checked was which head I have luckily its the 03G 103 308 C as you can see in the pictures so i guess i can rule out a cracked head.
I then took a log on vcds which came back with these figures im not sure if these look normal but ive been told if its at 2.99 then theres a problem.
https://mega.co.nz/#!l1NRUKDB!541Z_6alP9RpTgSeIUVns9xMMjN5Vr_lk8M0tZgJ8RI
This is the car idling (youtube)
https://youtu.be/O4mcvKd73iE
Water looks pritty clean aswell
Also noticed a puddle/ring of oil around the cap which is screwed tight so i dont know how thats getting out... currently using about a litre of oil every three months
Anyone have any suggestions as to what path i should take next ?
Im not sure if it could be the Egr cooler making it loose water but how would that explain the lack of power and then im thinking is it an injector seal thats gone.
Or is it a dogey head gasket :S
Maybe taking the egr off and temporarily blanking it off to see if thats sticking and causing the lack of power.
Thanks mike
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