Busted radiator
Posted in Random on October 31st, 2005Last thursday i was driving to class and when i reached there, i was looking for a parking space and i had to slow down. When i stopped, i saw smoke coming out from my front bonnet and that scared the hell outta me. I looked at my temperature gauge and saw the water temperature at 3 quarter full, so i quickly turned off the engine and opened my bonnet to see that the top casing of the radiator burst and had water spray out all over my engine.
I couldn’t do anything so i just quickly parked my car, then went up to class. Did my work and when we could leave, around 11am, i went and check my car and saw that it wasn’t that hot anymore, so i took quite a few bottles and filled them up with water, then filled up my radiator and expansion tank up to the brim and hoped i could reach my workshop without stopping.
Luckily i reached the workshop only with the temperature gauge hovering around the normal water temp all the way so i didn’t have to stop halfway. The mechanic checked and changed the top casing of the radiator cause that’s where it burst. Got it changed after that and serviced my radiator too all for the cost of around RM150 with new coolant and everything.

The top casing of the radiator all rusted and dirty

Part of it cracked

Like new radiator ! =P
Anyway, another day wasted fixing my car.







