Matthew96

Understand that where I’m from we call everyone man, buddy, pal, mate and lad. It’s part of our everyday language. I’ve no idea why you’re being a little bit toxic in a forum if I’m honest. Thanks for your input and all the best to you.

That’s what the initial suspicions are. We will know better after this weekend when it gets properly looked at. Thank you for your reply! You’ve been helpful. Appreciate it.

I understand what he meant yeah, he does have a point. Like I said in the original post, my mechanic has already ordered and will be replacing the bottle and sensor this weekend. But I still can’t see why I’m having a lack of water flow. There’s no water flow at all into the coolant bottle. Thanks for your reply, appreciated!

The oil temperature is always going to be higher than the water temperature though. And it doesn’t explain the absence of water flow. Thanks for your reply, appreciated!

Yikes. I wasn’t expecting this reply anyway. Maybe you misunderstood my last reply. I wasn’t trying to be a know-it-all or ignorant, just pointing out that your initial reply wasn’t quite resolving my problem. All the best anyway… pal.

That doesn’t explain the temperature gauge rising to 3/4 mark the one and only time that it did. And it also doesn’t explain the fact that there’s no water flow into the coolant bottle? Appreciate any help you can give buddy.

Was wondering if anyone could provide any insight into this. Apparently the car has had a water pump & timing belt done, as well as the head gasket before I bought it. My red coolant light is flashing as soon as I start it up with the three audible dings. The temperature gauge always stays at 90 and no more, apart from one occasion where it went to maybe around the 3/4 mark but no higher than that (I stopped and let it cool down and it didn’t go above 90 again for the reminder of that drive). I’ve started the car with the coolant cap off and the temperature at 90 to see if water was being introduced into the coolant bottle but it’s not. We also spotted a slight ‘bubbling’ in the coolant liquid that’s in the bottle if you know what I mean, the odd bubble coming up through the liquid. The red coolant light stays on pretty much any time I’m driving it now. The very odd time it might not show but 9/10 times it’s there. Temperature gauge never goes over 90 though. Coolant level is fine. I’m getting my mechanic to change the bottle and the sensor. He also mentioned looking at the thermostat. This is being done this weekend but I was wondering if anyone had any insight before he gets looking at it to perhaps narrow down the problem. Any ideas what the issue might be?