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    Hello all,

    Really hoping for some wisdom here...

    so I made the mistake of buying a 2001 VW Bora

    Week 1-3
    Car is leaking coolant.. leaking all the time.. find small patches of coolant under driver side...

    took the car back to the dealer.. advised that old cars loose a little oil / coolant ... no big deal

    Week 3.9 - 29th day
    I wrote a letter to the dealer... I've been on a long journey and basically lost the whole expansion tank worth of coolant.

    The dealer offers to take the car back and resolve the problem.. changes expansion tank and returns car.

    Week 4 - 6
    Same issue again and again.. this time dealer changes temperature sensor...

    Week 6 - 9
    Same issue .. getting ****** off now, dealer tells me he can't really help me.. we argue and then come to a resolution where I pay £250 and dealers pays the rest for a HEAD GASKET change.

    Returns the car, tells me not to drive it hard for a week or 2 as something about the head bonding with the engine.. I follow his advice.. I drive the car in town under 2000 rpms around town.


    Took the car for a 230 mile journey... didn't drive it too hard.. maybe 3000 rpm (85mph tops) ... car is leaking again basically an expansion tank worth of coolant is gone.. defo leaking on the floor again ..

    I don't know what the hell to do ... debating whether to cut my losses short and to take the car back to the dealer for a refund.

    Any advice greatly appreciated

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    what engine ??
    Audi 80 tdi avant with 360,000 miles...
     
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    Is it boiling up/high temp or just leaking water somewhere?
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    VOLKSWAGEN BORA (1J2) 1.9 TDI (101HP) Engine code : ATD

    it boils up and escapes through top ... expansion tank — imgbb.com

    Thanks Arjun
     
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    atd, porous head.
    worth checking the water is flowing back to the header tank when the engine is running. should be a constant flow through the little pipe going into the top. remove it if you cant see. a test for combustion gas in the coolant is worth doing, hot though .. but if the blue liquid doesnt change colour it doesnt rule it out, only rules it in fir it does change.
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    My coolant is orange :-S
     
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    liquid in a combustion tester starts blue, goes either green or yellow if carbon monoxide is present in the coolant. nothing to do with the colour of your coolant.
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    so I was wrong..

    water does not escape the section I circled above... it actually comes out of the escape part you mentioned..

    regarding the flow of coolant, I removed the small pipe at the top and water is indeed flowing

    You can also see the water flowing without removing the pipe...

    Seeing as the head has been done... is there anything else that can go wrong ???? Or could it be that the head gasket job has not been done properly

    I will probably take it back Saturday for the guy to look at again..

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    My guess is the head gasket hasn't been done,only some crap poured in the coolant trying to fix it,I would put in writing that you are rejecting the car as not fit for purpose and go down the small claims court route.
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    guy showed me a video of the car head being taken off and the head being done.. he didn't do it himself... guess I'm going to have to just take it the small claims court way

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