does it need flushing out?

[Manny]

looks very dark brown almost black, cant presume if its a colour of the anti-freeze?

Edited March 2, 2014 by Manny

[Manny]

its the same in the radiator.

[morgey]

It's isn't going to hurt to flush it

[Manny]

do you need red antifreeze and is the plug underneath the radiator?

[morgey]

Yeah you should really. Something to do with the type of seal used is suited to red coolant. And yeah it is but you will want to pull the pipe off to flush it properly

Edited March 2, 2014 by morgey

[Manny]

thanks, any pipe that connect to rad to engine? how many litres of coolant do you put in?

[Manny]

is this the plug? this is a paseo are they alike?

Edited March 2, 2014 by Manny

[morgey]

Yeah if it's all pretty grimy it would be worth pulling off most pipes and flushing everything out. Maybe even get a new thermostat.

Flush the rad out both ways. Engine both ways and the heater matrix

When I comes to filling it. Mix a load of coolant (not sure on quantity) fill it from the rad until no more can go in. Leave the cap off start the car and it will go down. Keep topping it up until it stops going down or starts overflowing then replace the cap. Run it until the fan comes on and off a couple of times. Turn it off fill overflow bottle and allow to cool. Top Up overflow and rad and it should be ok.

If at any point the temp gauge goes way up. Turn it off fill the rad and overflow and allow to cool completley. then repeat the filling step again.

Edited March 2, 2014 by morgey

[Manny]

thanks morgey

[morgey]

The tap on the rad is like a white plastic wing nut as well. It can be a bit brittle n break off but if you flush the whole system you could just remove the bottom rad pipe n not bother with that drain

[Manny]

cool cool.