replaced radiator and flushed now coolant level dropping
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replaced radiator and flushed now coolant level dropping
Hello, and thank you for letting me join your forum I have a 2004 Land Rover Discovery. I am the original owner and have always maintained the car. I developed a very slow coolant leak that was determined to be the radiator. I had the radiator replaced and they flushed the coolant and replaced it. Now after I drive the car and check the reservoir the next day it is more than half empty. This has happened 3 times. It is not overheating and I don’t see a leak. I don’t know what to do. I have replaced the coolant in the reservoir each time but after I drive it is half full again . I read that I should run the car with the reservoir cap off to get rid of the air. Does it sound like air?? thank you for your help. I am not comfortable returning to the same garage. Oh and Bty, I was charged 850.00 for this.
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Hello, and thank you for letting me join your forum I have a 2004 Land Rover Discovery. I am the original owner and have always maintained the car. I developed a very slow coolant leak that was determined to be the radiator. I had the radiator replaced and they flushed the coolant and replaced it. Now after I drive the car and check the reservoir the next day it is more than half empty. This has happened 3 times. It is not overheating and I don’t see a leak. I don’t know what to do. I have replaced the coolant in the reservoir each time but after I drive it is half full again . I read that I should run the car with the reservoir cap off to get rid of the air. Does it sound like air?? thank you for your help. I am not comfortable returning to the same garage. Oh and Bty, I was charged 850.00 for this.
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How many times will I need to top it off, before I acknowledge that something else is going on? It’s been 3 so far and more than 1/2 of the reservoir is empty the next day.
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So assuming it’s an air pocket, should I take the reservoir cap off and run the engine for awhile to get rid of the air. But if I do that should I add more coolant to fill the reservoir again before I run the engine?
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If you had that much air, you would have over heated by now. Pressure test the system and look for leaks. Common place for a leak to spring and be extremely difficult to see is the upper driver's side of the front cover. It will leak onto a bowl in the cover that will be very hard to see until that bowl fills and it starts dripping down onto the steering components.
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I am in Benin and I have bought a Range Rover évoque year 2015 in Philadelphia (USA) but**when I am driving the car it stops and I need to wait 1:30 to 2 hours before it can restart .it refuses to restart and you have to wait 1 to 2 hours sometimes before it restarts, that means you will waste all your time.*
I do not know what goes wrong and I have checked by scanning but it doesn’t show what is not properly working.*
Do do you know a Range Rover dealer in Togo or Ghana to fix it to me please ?*
Thank you*
I do not know what goes wrong and I have checked by scanning but it doesn’t show what is not properly working.*
Do do you know a Range Rover dealer in Togo or Ghana to fix it to me please ?*
Thank you*
TReK
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As you mentioned no overheating but still loosing coolant. Then, there could be a leak. If its just half of the reservoir, check leaks above the level of the reservoir anywhere from hoses, underneath the shroud which covers the radiator. Throttle body heater tubes or the pipe that goes to the heater. This only when you dont loose coolant lower than the level you saw 3 times.
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