birolacoo
Standard Member
Hi,
So, I have a 2001 VW Golf mk4 with a 1.9 TDI PD (AJM or AJR not sure, can check) 115 bhp thingy which used to be a car.
As I mentioned in the title, there's fuel in the coolant currently and I had a very bad fuel leak as well. I haven't switched the engine on for more than a week now due to this.
The mechanic I called over to check the car couldn't find the leak with the engine switched off and it wouldn't start. Later on I started it up, and within the first minute the coolant reservoir was overflowing due to the huge pressure and started to leak.
- EDIT
This was NOT a minor leak, but within about the ten minutes while the engine was running I lost almost a quarter of a tank of fuel.
-EDIT
The mechanic never saw the issue earlier, so he told me to try to research. So I asked around and so far the most likely explanation seems to be a broken cylinder head.
I'm really unhappy with that as the car's value does not really meet the required cost I would need to invest in having it changed.
I tried to research it but I couldn't find anything particularly relevant.
You can probably tell that all I know about cars is limited to what we learned about internal combustion engines in Physics class 25+ years ago.
Please, please, please, give me a lead on this. So I could pass it on to a mechanic to get it sorted.
Thanks a lot!
So, I have a 2001 VW Golf mk4 with a 1.9 TDI PD (AJM or AJR not sure, can check) 115 bhp thingy which used to be a car.
As I mentioned in the title, there's fuel in the coolant currently and I had a very bad fuel leak as well. I haven't switched the engine on for more than a week now due to this.
The mechanic I called over to check the car couldn't find the leak with the engine switched off and it wouldn't start. Later on I started it up, and within the first minute the coolant reservoir was overflowing due to the huge pressure and started to leak.
- EDIT
This was NOT a minor leak, but within about the ten minutes while the engine was running I lost almost a quarter of a tank of fuel.
-EDIT
The mechanic never saw the issue earlier, so he told me to try to research. So I asked around and so far the most likely explanation seems to be a broken cylinder head.
I'm really unhappy with that as the car's value does not really meet the required cost I would need to invest in having it changed.
I tried to research it but I couldn't find anything particularly relevant.
You can probably tell that all I know about cars is limited to what we learned about internal combustion engines in Physics class 25+ years ago.
Please, please, please, give me a lead on this. So I could pass it on to a mechanic to get it sorted.
Thanks a lot!
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