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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« on: 23 April 2024, 07:58:16 »Finished a head gasket repair on a friends 1.4 Turbo Zaf C.
Wife has one of these (2016 SE 1.4 Auto) - I really should dump the coolant on this. Been giving it annual oil changes with Dex1 Gen2.
It does low miles, but lots of stop/start town stuff.
It's been very reliable so far, just changed the coolant hose that goes from the coolant tank and plumbs in what I assume is the main coolant engine feed. The one with the metal clip, it was starting to weep a bit.
It blew a windscreen washer pump around 2 years ago.
But apart from that since 2019 been a solid mummy wagon.
I guess that is the smaller vent hose from the top of coolant elbow at the gearbox end of the engine to the header tank?
The hose end goes brittle and fractures, the part with the metal clip is actually (and rather crazy!) an adaptor with an O ring on it (easy to swap the O-ring), the main hose has a plastic clip integrated into the end