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Ive been watching the engine coolant levels in my r33 lately and it seems to be using heaps of it. Its gone down like 1cm worth in the last 30km of driving. I marked the level on the bottle a few days ago and its definetly gone down heaps.

Im thinking it may have started 2 weeks ago when i had my installed/tuned ?

Is there anything I should check, or is it just gonna use abit more now ?

The engine coolant stuff im using is castrol radi cool i think.

thanks :)

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Keep an eye on it. You should not be using any coolant fluid at all.

If it keeps going down take it to a repair shop and have the radiator pressure tested.

If you are loosing pressure then thats where your coolant is going. It will either be lost in one of two places - leaks in the coolant hoses or at worst a leaking head gasket. The fix for the latter is to replace the head gasket.

Cheers

Bov

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is it something i can just get any ol mechanic to fix ?

cause im cheap :)

thanks heaps for your help

Keep an eye on it. You should not be using any coolant fluid at all.

If it keeps going down take it to a repair shop and have the radiator pressure tested.

If you are loosing pressure then thats where your coolant is going.  It will either be lost in one of two places - leaks in the coolant hoses or at worst a leaking head gasket.  The fix for the latter is to replace the head gasket.

Cheers

Bov

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fixing a headgasket isnt really that cheap, so i hope its not that, i've been there done that on one of my old cars. damn it !!!. Have you overheated the car at all ? does it run better when the car is warm, is your engine oil milky at all, traces of white of anything like that? Get your cooling system flushed out and new coolant in. Not that expensive, and get the radiator people to pressure check it while they are at it, may just be the radiator also.

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nah it seems to run pretty well all the time. When its cold though it takes a few mins for it to be 100% happy but thats normal i always thought ?

ill goto midas later this week or something get them to check it out, there usualy quite cheap :P

btw coupe-this.. you live close to me i think... is there anywhere local you take your car to get work done on it ?

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