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Heater has stopped working - Perfect!!

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  • pwllbwdr
    pwllbwdr Posts: 443 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Xmas Saver!
    Like I said.

    Next check your oil level. If it is higher than it should be, you have found your missing water.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    Tell us that you didn't top it up with water? It requires anti freeze solution.

    I would take it to a local garage and get them to check it out for you.
  • Rossy.
    Rossy. Posts: 2,484 Forumite
    edited 18 December 2010 at 12:07PM
    Undo the oil filler cap

    My bets on Headgasket failure too

    If you've got a creamy looking substance on the cam's or filler cap then your head gasket is gone.

    Rover head gaskets are made out of chocolate
    If Adam and Eve were created first
    .Does that mean we are all inbred
  • Stigy
    Stigy Posts: 1,581 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    The Rover K-Series engine (which your car has) is renouned for having a weak Head Gasket. If the oil is a sort of light brown colour (a bit like chicken soup!), it'll be the headgasket. Does the temp. guage rise as it should do?
  • Gene_Hunt_2
    Gene_Hunt_2 Posts: 3,902 Forumite
    Inactive wrote: »
    Rover 25, my money is on head gasket failure.;)


    Odds on bet. Rovers are 5h1te.
  • Gene_Hunt_2
    Gene_Hunt_2 Posts: 3,902 Forumite
    Stigy wrote: »
    The Rover K-Series engine (which your car has) is renouned for having a weak Head Gasket. If the oil is a sort of light brown colour (a bit like chicken soup!), it'll be the headgasket. Does the temp. guage rise as it should do?

    Wow are you a mechanic?

    Have you worked at Rover?
  • Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!
    Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers! Posts: 2,579 Forumite
    Inactive wrote: »
    Tell us that you didn't top it up with water? It requires anti freeze solution.

    I would take it to a local garage and get them to check it out for you.

    Absolutely follow this advice. To not do so may result in further more serious damage to your engine.
  • Stigy
    Stigy Posts: 1,581 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Gene_Hunt wrote: »
    Wow are you a mechanic?

    Have you worked at Rover?
    No, and no again, have had many dealings with Rovers when I was in the 'trade'. The best thing Rover ever done was use Honda engines in their cars. Maybe if Rover still had ties with Honda in 2005, they'd still be around now?
  • pwllbwdr
    pwllbwdr Posts: 443 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Xmas Saver!
    Not so. The best thing Rover ever did was put Buick engines in their cars.
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    pwllbwdr wrote: »
    Not so. The best thing Rover ever did was put Buick engines in their cars.

    Not so, the best thing Rover ever did was to go out of business.
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