So members may recall my pug had coolant issues 2 services ago, well which 208 owner doesn't? It seemed forums are littered with coolant issues with my variant.
Anyways after spending money replacing that non-moving contraption, which I do not know what it is called now, although I have never seen my pug dripping liquid ever and the floor it was parked on was always dry - took a while to digest it leaked an ocean.
Fast forward, service is due 2023, and all seemed fine except months ago I mentioned the oil level was low and I must've put it in inaccurately as it was without a funnel, and smell of oil at times.
I do not pop the hood every second day - some do, but I don't - I popped it last night to look see - surprised the coolant tank was drizabone! This cannot be? No warning light, the needle did not point to almost boiling so what happened?
Luckily I am due for a service in just a few days and thankfully I still have my gallon of premixed stock Pug coolant.
I was planning on topping the coolant once the car is fully cooled prefer overnight. Anyways I went to check it after a few hours - and brace yourselves - the coolant is magically back in the tank, just below maximum, wtf? wasn't it driza bone the night before when it was hot?
Funnily, the coolant I remember was always greenish bluish tint ( the stock one) and my eyes may have been not paying attention, when it was hot, somehow my coolant had turned from bluish-green to colourless - that is why my mind interpreted it as dry and nothing because the liquid had turned crystal colourless and at a quick glance it does look like nothing was inside. When it was cooled, armed with my bottle of premixed coolant - I can see the level as just below max. However, get this,it had also lost all of its greenish-bluish colours! How strange!
So either when I checked it when it was hot - it all went into the radiator so I saw nothing OR the liquid had turned colourless and I was unable to distinguish as I was expecting to see a bluish-greenish liquid and since there was no colour in the bottle, my mind says nothing - is dry.
So I top it up and it immediately turned from colourless to greenish. Now I can see the coolant is there and appears to have been always there but colourless.
Do members have a similar experience where their coolant suddenly goes albino with no colour? We all know coolant is not colourless so something must've happened to turn the coolant colourless. Wonder what turned it?
It was as it the coolant bottle was filled with plain water. That's what it was until I topped up and it turned bluish-green right away.
Anyways after spending money replacing that non-moving contraption, which I do not know what it is called now, although I have never seen my pug dripping liquid ever and the floor it was parked on was always dry - took a while to digest it leaked an ocean.
Fast forward, service is due 2023, and all seemed fine except months ago I mentioned the oil level was low and I must've put it in inaccurately as it was without a funnel, and smell of oil at times.
I do not pop the hood every second day - some do, but I don't - I popped it last night to look see - surprised the coolant tank was drizabone! This cannot be? No warning light, the needle did not point to almost boiling so what happened?
Luckily I am due for a service in just a few days and thankfully I still have my gallon of premixed stock Pug coolant.
I was planning on topping the coolant once the car is fully cooled prefer overnight. Anyways I went to check it after a few hours - and brace yourselves - the coolant is magically back in the tank, just below maximum, wtf? wasn't it driza bone the night before when it was hot?
Funnily, the coolant I remember was always greenish bluish tint ( the stock one) and my eyes may have been not paying attention, when it was hot, somehow my coolant had turned from bluish-green to colourless - that is why my mind interpreted it as dry and nothing because the liquid had turned crystal colourless and at a quick glance it does look like nothing was inside. When it was cooled, armed with my bottle of premixed coolant - I can see the level as just below max. However, get this,it had also lost all of its greenish-bluish colours! How strange!
So either when I checked it when it was hot - it all went into the radiator so I saw nothing OR the liquid had turned colourless and I was unable to distinguish as I was expecting to see a bluish-greenish liquid and since there was no colour in the bottle, my mind says nothing - is dry.
So I top it up and it immediately turned from colourless to greenish. Now I can see the coolant is there and appears to have been always there but colourless.
Do members have a similar experience where their coolant suddenly goes albino with no colour? We all know coolant is not colourless so something must've happened to turn the coolant colourless. Wonder what turned it?
It was as it the coolant bottle was filled with plain water. That's what it was until I topped up and it turned bluish-green right away.