Hello all,

Have any of your guys had this problem before?...

When starting from cold, my coolant level light and alarm starts going off, every time I start from cold... and its getting anoying now!

First time this happened, I turned it off and popped the bonnet to check the level, which was fine, has been for ages, and level has never dropped.

I've also had the water pump changed within the last 6 months along with the cam belt etc, so there should be no warn parts here to cause any fluid loss.

It started off doing this in my drive, which is on a slope and I though it might be the water being tilted away from the sensor pins in the header tank, which made sense untill it started doing it on level ground at work when starting from cold...

When you turn off and re-start once its warmed a little, even after running for a couple of minutes, its fine, no warnings.

My thought at the moment, is a faulty sensor in the header tank, but before going to get it checked out / buying a new one; I thought I would ask on here, in case its a known fault?

Thanks for reading, hope to get this sorted soon!

I would give the pins a clean first....

I would give the pins a clean first....

Thanks for that; will have a look in the morning, but not sure this is the cause of the problem as they look like new, no muck or anything in the tank. The car has very low miles so is all clean.

You'd be amazed how little of a coating it takes though, mine did the same a couple of months back . Give them a good working over with a new, clean toothbrush

Mine did this last year in the cold spell & again this year when it got cold,all i did both times was add a bit of coolant(level was ok,not low!) & its never done it again since!

You'd be amazed how little of a coating it takes though, mine did the same a couple of months back . Give them a good working over with a new, clean toothbrush

Thanks all for your help; I went out this morning armed with some wet & dry and some long nose pliers...

Though the pins looked very clean and shiney, i went over them with a piece of wet & dry paper pinched in some long nose pliers and rubbed away all round the pins,

I was not sure this had done anything as they looked no different after, but when I started up (from cold, first start of the day), there was no warning light!

Thats the type of nice easy fix I like! I will remember that one!

Thanks again for your help.

Matt

Great Advice, Mine has just done the same on a run up the A5. Stopped as soon as I could, checked for leaks but nothing and engine temperature fine. I also checked the fuses under the bonnet as the Manual says. There was one fuse that had popped up out of its housing which isnt a surprise as the council do not fill any of our pot holes here its nuts...... anyway put that back and its okay. for now. I will do the pins as well asap as we just had cold spell. Cheers.