Any car experts about?

[pigeonman007]

Hi all

my other half recently bought an 02 rover 25, 41000 miles on the clock. Car seems to be running fine but I went to top her coolant up today and there is a very thin layer of brown creamy stuff on top of the coolant. Heat gauge has never gone above half and no loss of oil, no high use of coolant either.

 

Wondering if this might be head gasket probs, or perhaps worrying over nothing?

 

The car cames with 3 months warranty from the garage, she has had it 2 months. If head gasket would this likely be covered under garage warranty?

 

Cheers

[Guest numpty01]

well most garages would not cover you anyway dispite garantee the rover 25 is that the small 1.4 or 1.6????? or is it the 2lte rover engin or izuzu

[Guest strapper]

head gasket most prob as water is getting into the oil....common symptom of head gasket failure.

[Guest numpty01]

Rovers do have gasket problems its quite a common fault with them unless its got a honda engine as i found out had to have another enginer put in mine and that done about same mileage as yours same as yours never used any water didnt even overheat when it happened there was just a bang and that was it  :-/

cor youer good with bad news i was going let him know gently honda engin not izuzu the best rover rubbish

 

[pigeonman007]

Hiya

Its the 1.6 Auto, dont have a clue about the engine type though - sounds like it could be costly

[Guest numpty01]

ahhhh now we are getting there the rover 1.6 auto use.s oil cooler on autos that is cconnected to water system they can leak through to the radiator that will give you oil in filler but no loss of water or rise in temp as its gearbox oil not engin you wont notice oil loss ;D ;D ;D ;D

[pigeonman007]

Ahha, I should say I know less about cars than I do pigeons and I know next to nothing about them either ;D ;D lol

[pigeonman007]

ahhhh now we are getting there the rover 1.6 auto use.s oil cooler on autos that is cconnected to water system they can leak through to the radiator that will give you oil in filler but no loss of water or rise in temp as its gearbox oil not engin you wont notice oil loss ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

Is that likely to be a big job to get sorted? She was wanting to use the car this weekend, 160ish mile round trip

 

 

[Guest numpty01]

ford granadas were the same auto.s  on service the gearbox oil was white that was baffling lots peaple till they found the radiator was faulty and letting in water to gearbox cooler problem solved  

[Guest numpty01]

 

Is that likely to be a big job to get sorted? She was wanting to use the car this weekend, 160ish mile round trip

 

if you only just noticed the sludge then its been there a while is it very light creamy colour or dark

 

[pigeonman007]

Yup, only just noticed it this evening. Its a bit darker than pine wood, not very thick sludge, not as thick as paint or anything like that

[Guest numpty01]

then take hose of filler wash it out run car till weekend see how much is in there then get back to me smell the sludge it wont smell like engin oil  but power steering fluid and is pinkish

[pigeonman007]

Hya numpty...

 

Got some radiator flush and have drained/flushed through. The stuff that came out was like clots of cream, didnt smell oily but was a brown colour.

Done that friday evening, she used the car over the weekend and no more of this stuff has formed ontop of the header tank. Didnt overheat or anything on her trip.

Hopefully have solved the problem, although not convinced and it is going back to the garage we got it from tomorrow morning to have a check through as we still have a week or so left on waranty.

 

 

[Guest numpty01]

get them to pressuer up the cooler that will show if oil gettinto water system if youer lucky at sometime it could have had head gasket and they never flushed out the water system so anyoil that may gone into water jacket stayed there