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Seriously bad start to my ED30 ownership - Help needed
Paradox1:
As said, take some water and coolant and kee it topped up and take it to matey at VRS. he seems to know what he is talking about
Unfortunately, VW go of guess work and seem to diagnose issues as replaceing the whole unit rather that the small jobs so to speak.
Im sure you can claim back from VW. May even be worth claiming more for to inconvenience too?
Always a fear when buying a new car having to go through these problems bud
Hazy:
Okay so here's an update.. Alex is fully booked for a long time but was pretty stumped. Very unusual apparently.. I've just been to VW to pick my car up but I have been persuaded to let it stay for awhile, for free, to do some further investigation before they decide to suggest I strip the engine and send it off (by this I was told I'd get a call tomorrow morning). They've got a torch and took me to the car. Under the engine at the front there's an obvious, pink related rust mark where the coolant been leaking for quite some time. It's not looking good, but they now want to strip the front of the engine bay as he says there's a very very slim chance it could just be something little but he's saying he's pretty sure it's from the head.. I couldn't get a picture since my phone had low battery. I have made a bad attempt of explaining this using the pic from google images below.. red is where we looked through with a torch. Purple is where the pinky rust section was where it had been leaking.
http://postimg.org/image/brgsysidl/
GTIite:
Speak to James at VDS performance might be able to help. (Based in Surrey) www.vdsperformance.co.uk
Llew:
take it somewhere else for a pressure test to find out where the leak is and at least get a second opinion -sounds strange that when you went to take the car they say engine might not need to be stripped
99hagued:
--- Quote from: Hazy on August 26, 2015, 03:31:59 pm ---Okay so here's an update.. Alex is fully booked for a long time but was pretty stumped. Very unusual apparently.. I've just been to VW to pick my car up but I have been persuaded to let it stay for awhile, for free, to do some further investigation before they decide to suggest I strip the engine and send it off (by this I was told I'd get a call tomorrow morning). They've got a torch and took me to the car. Under the engine at the front there's an obvious, pink related rust mark where the coolant been leaking for quite some time. It's not looking good, but they now want to strip the front of the engine bay as he says there's a very very slim chance it could just be something little but he's saying he's pretty sure it's from the head.. I couldn't get a picture since my phone had low battery. I have made a bad attempt of explaining this using the pic from google images below.. red is where we looked through with a torch. Purple is where the pinky rust section was where it had been leaking.
http://postimg.org/image/brgsysidl/
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looking at your picture it might just be leaking from the thermostat, that's where that is buried would prob need to remove the alternator to see better
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