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So it looks like my radiator is fekked. Coolant has been dripping it out of it and I pulled the undertray off this evening, hoping it's was a loose hose or something. It seems to be bubbling from the very bottom of where the core meets the lower frame bit.
See very dodgy one handed video here. seems to be upside down/sideways. You can kind of see in the last couple of seconds where it's bubbling out.
I can't see it coming from anywhere else so it must be the radiator??? Maybe the problem has been there for ages but with me using the car rarely and usually only for short trips in the winter maybe I wasn't driving much with the coolant circulating.. or maybe the radiator is just fekked from the car not having been used for a long time in the UK and now that i've started to drive it a bit, it's just falling apart.
So anyway... first question is.. should I use this bottle of K-Seal I've had in my "emergency kit" for years? Has anyone got experience with this?
And second question is.. where can I get a new radiator at a reasonable price? I think all 5 cyl coupes had the same main radiator, is that right? Of course I have a friggin Aircon radiator strapped to the front of it just to make my life sh1tty when it comes to changing it.
Any of these?
£100 Nissens
£76 Nissens, which looks kinds the same??
Or something else? I don't need a platinum radiator, washed in virgin's tears or anything. Just something that works for a few years would be good... By which point I'll probably have become pissed off with the CQ and bought an S2... or done something silly and tried to put a V8 in it. Yeah right, like a V8 would be found cheap in Finland!!
anyway, I'd appreciate any thoughts.
cheers
See very dodgy one handed video here. seems to be upside down/sideways. You can kind of see in the last couple of seconds where it's bubbling out.
I can't see it coming from anywhere else so it must be the radiator??? Maybe the problem has been there for ages but with me using the car rarely and usually only for short trips in the winter maybe I wasn't driving much with the coolant circulating.. or maybe the radiator is just fekked from the car not having been used for a long time in the UK and now that i've started to drive it a bit, it's just falling apart.
So anyway... first question is.. should I use this bottle of K-Seal I've had in my "emergency kit" for years? Has anyone got experience with this?
And second question is.. where can I get a new radiator at a reasonable price? I think all 5 cyl coupes had the same main radiator, is that right? Of course I have a friggin Aircon radiator strapped to the front of it just to make my life sh1tty when it comes to changing it.
Any of these?
£100 Nissens
£76 Nissens, which looks kinds the same??
Or something else? I don't need a platinum radiator, washed in virgin's tears or anything. Just something that works for a few years would be good... By which point I'll probably have become pissed off with the CQ and bought an S2... or done something silly and tried to put a V8 in it. Yeah right, like a V8 would be found cheap in Finland!!
anyway, I'd appreciate any thoughts.
cheers
I have a 20V CQ and a friend has 10V(NG) CQ, both the same age, and his also has the extra radiator? 
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