It's been a bad week, aircon and powersteering broke.
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It's not been a good week for me so thought I would share the problems as it may be worth checking you cars for signs.
I've had no air conditioning for the last 3 weeks, it's been fixed now by a local car air con specialist. It would hold the gas for about 1 week then it would all be gone. It was traced to an alloy pipe that had worn very thin from rubbing on a jubilee clip that attaches to the coolant radiator at the bottom on the passenger side. The smaller of the two air con pipes just before the bend where it goes vertical up the left side of the radiator.
May well be worth taking alook as the replacement pipe is over £300 as it comes direct from the compressor.
I had my oil changed yesterday morning and noticed oil all over the lower right front engine mount, cleaned it all up and it looked like the hoses that attach to the power steering oil cooler were leaking. I then drove 2 miles to have the air con fixed, had another look and there was oil everywhere again. The cooler is in front of the rads (you can see it through the front grille, the two pipes pass through to the engine bay on the lower right side of the radiator, the then turn upwards slightly and then are linked to the pipes to the pump etc via two rubber hoses. With the engine running I could see (on the bend upwards) the oil leaking from a hair line crack in the pipes, balls.
So a new cooler is about £55 but I have now bypassed the cooler, removed it and it's now living in the bin. I had to use and cut one of the rubber hoses to link the two pipes (as needed a U bend) so the cooler is temporarily out of the circuit (thanks Roger for the advice). Power steering now works, just need to keep an eye on the level as due to drop it off at rapid gb monday night.
All of the pipes are rusty as hell but this is normal but the two that pass beside the radiator must get alot of water on them as it is blown through the grill etc.
End of the bad day...
I've had no air conditioning for the last 3 weeks, it's been fixed now by a local car air con specialist. It would hold the gas for about 1 week then it would all be gone. It was traced to an alloy pipe that had worn very thin from rubbing on a jubilee clip that attaches to the coolant radiator at the bottom on the passenger side. The smaller of the two air con pipes just before the bend where it goes vertical up the left side of the radiator.
May well be worth taking alook as the replacement pipe is over £300 as it comes direct from the compressor.
I had my oil changed yesterday morning and noticed oil all over the lower right front engine mount, cleaned it all up and it looked like the hoses that attach to the power steering oil cooler were leaking. I then drove 2 miles to have the air con fixed, had another look and there was oil everywhere again. The cooler is in front of the rads (you can see it through the front grille, the two pipes pass through to the engine bay on the lower right side of the radiator, the then turn upwards slightly and then are linked to the pipes to the pump etc via two rubber hoses. With the engine running I could see (on the bend upwards) the oil leaking from a hair line crack in the pipes, balls.
So a new cooler is about £55 but I have now bypassed the cooler, removed it and it's now living in the bin. I had to use and cut one of the rubber hoses to link the two pipes (as needed a U bend) so the cooler is temporarily out of the circuit (thanks Roger for the advice). Power steering now works, just need to keep an eye on the level as due to drop it off at rapid gb monday night.
All of the pipes are rusty as hell but this is normal but the two that pass beside the radiator must get alot of water on them as it is blown through the grill etc.
End of the bad day...
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