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Coolant gurgle - advice needed please

Joss Walker

Joss Walker

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When I start my car after it has been standing for some time I can hear a very distinct gurgle of liquid moving around, it sounds like it is coming from behind the dashboard (definitely in the cabin) but to the right of the steering wheel, ie not near the heater matrix. After 20 seconds or so it stops, is this normal? I'm guessing not and I have recently started to lose a small volume of coolant, I can't see where it is going but I do have a crack in the header tank so I think that may be the culprit.

As an aside I had the radiator flushed and all hoses checked etc by RPM when I bought the car a couple of years ago. Also my heater controls appear to do nothing as the air is always warm, I cannot control where it goes and the fan only works on settings 0 and 4 (a faulty resistor I believe?)

Any of this ring any bells with anyone?
 
It is coolant sloshing round the heater matrix when you rev the engine. Your car needs bleeding mate. Preferably pressure bleeding.
 
Gurgling, bleed the system properly, with the car facing uphill.

Hot air all the time? Heater flap clip broken, someone was going to post the part numbers but it's only a £ or so.

Fan working on 0 and 4, resistor under the bonnet, contact cleaner usually does the trick but be careful as the whole thing can disintegrate.

All have come up recently so a search should find pictures etc. [:)]
 
Mine was making that sound, I had a couple of coolent leaks, including a hole in the rad. Think you need to check al the hoses, rad and waterpump again.
 
Heater fan clip from Porsche, Edinburgh:
944.572.314.00 and 944.572.217.00. Total cost - they even posted it to me - was £1.09.
 
Yep that was me saying I was going to post the part numbers about a week ago :ROFLMAO:

But yep that sound is definitive of air leaking in somewhere
 
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