Hi can anyone help, just bought a fabia vrs had a 4 and half hour steady drive home. As soon as i got home coolant light started flashing checked coolant the system is compleatly empty. What could be the issue?. I checked coolant befour i purchased the car the bottle was full of water, i asked the guy why its was full of water he said its wasent he put blue die in it, i assumed he was telling the truth but clearly not. Can anyone shed some light at where to start or is this dredded headlift🙁

Sorry dude, you just got took.

 

Textbook head gasket failure.

13 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

Sorry dude, you just got took.

 

Textbook head gasket failure.

Ffs thanks mate car will be back on lads drive tomorrow

My thought too, particularly since I can't see any legit reason for putting glycol (blue, or occasionally green) in a cooling system designed for OAT (pink or orange).

17 hours ago, KenONeill said:

My thought too, particularly since I can't see any legit reason for putting glycol (blue, or occasionally green) in a cooling system designed for OAT (pink or orange).

It's not designed for OAT it is designed for glycol.

 

The colour means nothing, I have seen blue, green, red, purple and yellow glycol. I have seen blue and red OAT, the colour is just that a colour and it has no impact. I had purple glycol in my VRS which thanks to Sepulchrave I now know is to show up under fluorescent lighting and refilled it with red glycol after changing the cambelt and waterpump.

You could try using two egg whites in the coolant system. If you do this, make sure you take out the egg yokes as these don't help to block a leak. I usually use an electric whisk to mix the two egg whites up with some coolant fluid first, and then pour the mixture into an empty header tank.

 

No guarantees this will fix the problem, but I would give it a go if there was no evidence of water pump failure or split rubber hose, etc.

 

This would block a small radiator leak or a small gasket leak.

 

Apart from the head gasket, the leak could be down to a failing water pump or a split rubber hose.

2 minutes ago, Carlston said:

You could try using two egg whites in the coolant system. If you do this, make sure you take out the egg yokes as these don't help to block a leak. I usually use an electric whisk to mix the two egg whites up with some coolant fluid first, and then pour the mixture into an empty header tank.

 

No guarantees this will fix the problem, but I would give it a go if there was no evidence of water pump failure or split rubber hose, etc.

 

This would block a small radiator leak or a small gasket leak.

 

Apart from the head gasket, the leak could be down to a failing water pump or a split rubber hose.

 

Please, this is terrible advice, it's a bush fix for use in an emergency not a valid methodology for repairing a blown head gasket.

16 hours ago, retro said:

The colour means nothing, I have seen blue, green, red, purple and yellow glycol. I have seen blue and red OAT

Well, except that the colours conventionally used are as I quoted. If you have regular access to glycol that isn't blue or green, and/or to OAT that is blue or red, post a picture, and explain how you keep from putting the wrong wrong one in a cooling system.

1 hour ago, KenONeill said:

Well, except that the colours conventionally used are as I quoted. If you have regular access to glycol that isn't blue or green, and/or to OAT that is blue or red, post a picture, and explain how you keep from putting the wrong wrong one in a cooling system.

Easy look at Halfords Comma G40, they do varying colours and are ethylene glycol based. The coolant that is OAT states clearly it is OAT based.

 

And I have seen varying colours as I'm a mechanic and you don't put the wrong stuff in by using resources such as auto data, Haynes manual etc.

 

It isn't conventional colours for the type of coolant have quoted but common misconception.

 

I have blue glycol in one of my cars, green in another and red in my VRS.