mex
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Has anyone used this, a fried of mine has a rover 25, its losing coolant and has alot of pressure in the coolant tank, there is no mayo atall or oil loss atall, im wondering if this k-seal actually works ?
The temperature goes upto half then 3 quaters then back down when the fan kicks in, i've bled the system numerous times and still no luck
I know its the early symptoms of hg failure.
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Tomnova16
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Is it called k seal as its for k series engines ?
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mex
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quote:
Originally posted by Tomnova16
Is it called k seal as its for k series engines ?
not according to the web, few people have used it on fiestas / puntos and have had good results
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malteaser
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i work in a motor factors, and you cant buy anything better than this. hope this helps
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stan_the_man
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Change the head gasket?
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ShEp
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Wouldnt touch it.
It has bits of copper in it, I used it once to seal the rad on my saxo till the new one arrived,
I had to renew the thermostat and flush the engine afterwards, fuck knows what sorta mess the head was in.
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ShEp
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Oh and it didnt work.
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mex
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quote:
Originally posted by stan_the_man
Change the head gasket?
why spend £300 if a £15 bottle of liquid might work
never used the stuff myself so dont know anything about it, everyone all over the rover forums say its a good product and to use it if early signs of hg failure are appearing
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Jon_C
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Tried it in my Golf and had no luck. Spent ages cleaning it all out when i changed my rad on Friday too
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Corsa_Sport21
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Registered: 13th Apr 08
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Ive heard that "steel seal" stuff is meant to be good.
When i was looking at a few MGZR's as a cheap runner, alot of folk on the forums had used the above stuff with good results, and still going strong 10k miles later.
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johnhara1
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Used it a few times on Puntos etc and it did the job fine.
Used it yesterday on a little Fiat Sceicento, didn't work so i took the head off and the gasket was terrible, so i wasn't suprised at all.
Definitely worth a go.
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Haimsey
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Registered: 8th May 05
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Used it on the gf's tigra 2.5 weeks ago as that was using coolant and suspected HG failure.
Touch wood its fine.
Felt awfully guilty pouring what looks like copper slip into the header tank. But its done the trick!
*btw its being run into the ground so didnt really care what 'other' effects it had, as long as it worked.
[Edited on 30-01-2012 by Haimsey]
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Graeme
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Quality bodge, used it a few times and does wonders.
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sand-eel
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Used it once worked fine then fucked again so poured another bottle in and it didn't work.
Don't use k-seal it left a big pile of the copper shit at the bottom rad hose.
I have used steel seal and its bloody good...get steel seal, expensive but works.
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davieslim
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Registered: 15th Sep 08
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ive used it lots of times and when i worked in my friends car accesories shop we were selling it by the case load to car sales companys and taxi drivers and never had a complaint
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Dan H
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Registered: 27th Nov 08
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I've used it a few times and it has always worked.. but its a rover, would rather change the headgasket
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