New S Owner

[Podie]

haggishead said: Wheeeeee!!!

After 4 days of trepidation, of the "what have I done?" type, I picked up the car today.

Only one word describes the drive home : Fan - bleeding - tastic!

Sounds familiar...!

Seems to overheat a smidge when stationary, and I noticed that the centre console dials are steaming up (coolant leak? must investigate...)

As mentioned... "they all do that sir!" - nowt to worry about... heat soak from the engine...

[spivvy]

haggishead said: Wheeeeee!!!

After 4 days of trepidation, of the "what have I done?" type, I picked up the car today.

Only one word describes the drive home : Fan - bleeding - tastic!

Seems to overheat a smidge when stationary, and I noticed that the centre console dials are steaming up (coolant leak? must investigate...) but I'll get round to that. In the meantime, I have had a procession of every small boy (aged 6 to 36) in the street over for a look...

I have to go to work tomorrow... (altogether - aww....) but only for a half day (hooray!!)

Welcome to the club if funny but when i picked my car up i had similar problems ,
Apparently the dials steaming up;i was told is quite normal due to the heat from the engine,
i also had a slight overheat as will but i think this was down to the swirlpot lid not being on properly as it has been alright ever since

again welcome and enjoy

[andywill]

I have had my crystal blue s2 since october last year,top down all the time,everytime i put it in the garage i get out with my hands shaking.Each time i say to myself keep your foot off,s...its lovely.

[RichardR]

haggishead said:I noticed that the centre console dials are steaming up (coolant leak? must investigate...)

This is merely a clever system to provide you with "at-a-glance" confirmation that the engine's reached the correct operating temperature.

[Ren Dao]

spivvy said:

haggishead said: Wheeeeee!!!



Seems to overheat a smidge when stationary, and I noticed that the centre console dials are steaming up (coolant leak? must investigate...)

Same problem with mine - I found that after running it daily for a week the problem went away - and YES my temp gauge looks scary too - but it all seems to hang together O.K. - the dials are not the most acurate and IMHO only give a rough idea of whats going on under the bonnet. Welcome to the club and enjoy the ride.

[haggishead]

RichardR said:This is merely a clever system to provide you with "at-a-glance" confirmation that the engine's reached the correct operating temperature.

Gosh that is clever... When will the Japanese get round to making Mazda dials steam up?

(Speaking of which I went to Halfords today to price a new battery "TVR? That's a Honda isn't it?"

"Nooooo...")