Member Since: 25 May 2020
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 105
Lost Coolant, 1 incident of smoke+bubbles in coolant tank
Morning all
So having recently fixed the restricted performance issue on my 2010 Disco 4, I now have a new issue to fix
2 days ago, I got some pale white smoke on idle following a 10 minutes school run.
Then yesterday, following another 20 minute drive, the car failed to start (was turning over but not starting - not a battery issue as I just replaced it and voltage was showing at 12.2V) It did start eventually on subsequent attempts.
After the 2nd leg of yesterday's journey, I got a low coolant warning (I've previously replaced the expansion tank, so I know the sensor is not faulty).
So upon reading and searching on this great forum, I have checked the following:
* Checked the oil filler cap - No milky stuff on the oil cap -
* Coolant expansion bottle - there are definitely bubbles attached to the inside wall, not sure if that's normal (see pic below)
* Checked the coolant pipes - No obvious sign of a coolant leak.
Fault codes - saw this not sure if it is related or what it means for that matter.
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just on the inside of the filler neck you can see bubbles, and when the engine was running I could see bubbles coming in on the return pipe too.
Reading on the forum there are two things that I have seen others mention:-
1) blown gasket
2) EGR coolers leaking
So I wanted to ask, does anyone know where these coolers are located (I'm praying it's that and not a head gasket!)
Also does carrying out a block test confirm that it is the head gasket? or would a leaking egr cooler also yield the same result? ie exhaust gases would contaminate the coolant either from the egr cooler or the head.
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