Coolant leak

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Janosh

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Wednesday 21st January 2015
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My car has sprung a leak somewhere near the bottom of the rad on the driver's side... I don't know if there are any pipes down there, so until I check from underneath I'm presuming it's the radiator end cap frown

Pipes along the chassis rail (usual suspects) are nice and dry so the fluid is not coming from anywhere along there. It only looses fluid when running and then drips pretty steadily at around 1L every 10 minutes.

Which would leave me with 3 options:

Used - £100
New OEM - £300
Something aftermarket, which leads me here: http://www.mishimoto.co.uk/vauxhall-monaro-perform...

Any feedback??

Janosh

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Wednesday 21st January 2015
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KMud said:
The Mishi rad has a reputation on the GTO forums for needing that lifetime warranty.
Thanks mate - that rules that option out!

Janosh

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Saturday 24th January 2015
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Thanks mate, in for a penny, in for a pound.... decided to get the job done properly and went for a new OEM rad

Janosh

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Tuesday 13th October 2015
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Interesting to see that MF now stock the Mishimoto rad as an upgrade option to OEM... I guess any quality issues that the GTO boys experienced have been addressed / resolved??

I've got no complaints about the OEM radiator that I fitted a few months ago, but a nice alloy one would have been my preference yes