How much coolant use?

[gingerprince]

My Griffith 500 (bought a couple of weeks ago) appears to be losing coolant. Not a lot, about 2 inches in the expansion tank over about 500 miles.

No sign of water spots on the floor, so I'm guessing it's probably escaping as vapour when hot.

Is this normal?

[old64er]

if i keep topping mine up it uses it,
but if i leave it at its own level it won't use a drop.

i know it says run them at a certain level but if i do this it it just uses it!!

[ncs]

Sounds fine to me, I top mine up regularly.

Nick

[Scruffy]

My Griff had a tinytinytiny hole in the arse end of the radiator that pissed the finest jet of coolant onto the exhaust when under pressure/hot, which obviously evaporated instantly. It was fine when it was cool...
Though yours might be OK, it seemed to find it's own level when i fixed it. Keep an eye on it.

[Ballistic Banana]

The actual Level in the tank will settle diffrent in each car, remeber Rads/pipes etc have been changed on quite a few of these cars since new.
Tehy do have a habit of spitting water out and finding there own level, mine is just under half way, if i fill it up to two inches of the top then it just spits it out the lid when up to pressure/temperature.

AS said keep an eye on it until your sure its not moving much.

Remeber to check both swirl pot and expansion tank.

BB