Made An Ar*e Of Myself

[pugpete1108 62 1 Cars]

My neighbour knocked on my door last night and said his car has been overheating (rover 200 series)

 

so i go out and have a look over the car, all seems weel untils he says that the car has no antifreeze in it,just water. it also has no oil in it either!!!!

 

he said he just picked some up and was going to top them both up.

 

my first thought was he had frozen the water pump (this was before he said about no oil).

 

i went round to his boot and picked up what i thought was a 2ltr bottle of coolant which was in a halfords type bottle, turns out it was tesos engine oil and i dint notice until i had poured half a litre in the header tank.(engine was running at this time.)

 

i turned the engine off and removed the tank and cleaned it and tried to get as much gunk as possible, i deally i should have emptied the whole system but on the side of the road in a foot of snow just wasnt happening.

 

we filled up the water and oil whilst adding some antifreeze too, and the car seems to be ok now, apart from the layer of gunk in the header tank.

 

will the oil have caused any damage to the coolant system? and will it be ok until i can flush it through when the weather gets better.

 

i feel like a complete toolbag

[Cameron 16]

This is brilliant.

 

Seeing as it's a Rover, it's only a matter of time before it does it's head gasket anyway. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

On a serious note, I doubt it's going to do much damage. It'll just cause a bit of gunky froth but shouldn't affect the cooling or anything, if anything it should help lubricate the pump! I'd recommend he flushes the coolant out in spring.

[Tom Fenton 1,542]

Seeing as it's a Rover, it's only a matter of time before it does it's head gasket anyway. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

This, if its run out of coolant its probably already f***ed anyway.

[pugpete1108 62 1 Cars]

i thought that it would be f*cked tbh. but it makes no dodgy noises and we went for a good half hour drive and the temp never rose above half way so he may be lucky??

 

i told him if it lasts until summer then i would flush it out for him.

[JayCC 0]

The oil should just float to the top of the header tank anyway and the water continue to flow as normal?

[205007 12]

Wont the oil mix with the water and create the milky crud like you find in the sump when a water jacked/headgasket goes then?

[Cameron 16]

Yeah it will probably make that horrible brown sludge, depends how much oil you managed to put in I suppose!

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

Loosen the bottom rad hose, run it up to temp on his drive, then when it gets to temp the hose will pop off, push all the coolant out and clear all the snow from his drive Two for the price of one!

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Nice, didn't know Rover made an oil cooled engine

[SurGie 54]

There's more to Rover than meets the eye.

[allye 530 3 Cars]

Off topic but, are you being serious Surgie!?

 

Quote Surgie

 

'Are you having trouble walking on these icy paths, slipping all the time ? My advice would be to buy some golf trainers/shoes job jobbed.'

[muddatrucker 125]

Rovers are awful! should of poured petrol in there and dropped in a match!

[boldy205 75]

Thats very amusing!! It even cheered me up during the X Factor hell my girlfriend puts me through on a sunday evening!

[Flozman 4]

I second that.

[pugpete1108 62 1 Cars]

Well I'm glad my utter stupidity amuses you

 

I aim to please

[boldy205 75]

Your not the only one mate, it happens to all of us, the stupid things i do sometimes!

[feb 47]

I almost put antifreeze in the washer bottle once! I stopped just as I was about to start pouring

It doesn't help that they are next to each other, still no excuse though, don't know what the hell I was thinking!

 

You have reduced the effectiveness of the coolant, I would say drain as soon as you can.

Then again if the car had no oil or coolant before what you did seems harmless.

Edited December 5, 2010 by feb

[pug_ham 244 3 Cars]

the temp never rose above half way so he may be lucky??

Remembering the last time I drove a Rover, the temp guage only goes halfway under normal running conditions including having the fans on, can't remember seeing it sat any higher even when I'd been in queuing trafffic for 30+ minutes.

 

It probably only indicates high whn the head gasket has gone.

 

Graham.