1st suspect always has to be the rad.
I take it you have now added more coolant of the correct type to bring it to the correct level?

 

Thanks David.

I added the only coolant I could find which was blue. Not sure what it had in before but after doing a bit of research it may have been red? Anyway Coolant level back down to the bottom of the expansion tank after 1 week of driving. No overheating, no running problems, oil clean so hopefully no HGF.

Yesterday I topped it up again and then had it running in my garage for around 15minutes, constantly checking for leaks, both when it was topped up and also when it was running. Got nothing but I lost coolant again! about 1cm below minimum . Also checked thermostat for leaks and again nothing obvious.

Would the radiator be obvious if it was at fault, i.e water dripping from it? or could it still be coming from there and evaporating away?

edited to say that the drops in my garage were oil. So that's another job!

 

Something similar happened to me when i first bought my GT 3.2.As David says check the radiator as mine had deteriorated.

 

Did you change it yourself?

 

the proper coolant is pink did you not check before you refilled it ???? could be cylinder head .I think I would be calling at my local indi let them look at it

 

mixing types will cause further degradation of the rad. You want to flush that out quickly

B@

 

Mixing blue & red coolant types will be getting gloopy, generally not a great thing.

A fine mist of a leak from the rad could be evaporating quickly, but I'd have thought that would be noticeable in cold weather as it would be condensing quicker.

 

Thanks.

It's now booked in for tomorrow to be looked at. I will update when I know just in case others are having the same problem.

 

make sure he does a full flush of the system to remove all the blue coolant

 

Right, I took the alfa in this morning to simply alfas in Stourbridge. Had a great week in the sun last week so was due some punishment for enjoying myself so much

My coolant leak is actually coming from the pipes leading to the heater matrix which are unfortunately for me at the back of the engine, so a minimum 4 hour job to change £28 pipes :wow: It looks as though the previous owner stuck in some radweld to patch it up, so that's not good either.

Next up was an oil leak. This turns out to be seals in the engine block not put in correctly when the engine was rebuilt last year due to camel failure. So a big welcome back to alfa ownership for me . They're going to change the spark plugs whilst their replacing the seals to bring the bill up to £600 plus vat

big :thumbs: to simply alfa who have lent me a 147 until it's done which should be next week hopefully.

p.s are the plastics in the 147gta as poor as the standard 147? Also 49.3mpg average on this one being a jtd, so should claw back the majority on fuel over the next week lol

 

Right, I took the alfa in this morning to simply alfas in Stourbridge. Had a great week in the sun last week so was due some punishment for enjoying myself so much

My coolant leak is actually coming from the pipes leading to the heater matrix which are unfortunately for me at the back of the engine, so a minimum 4 hour job to change £28 pipes :wow: It looks as though the previous owner stuck in some radweld to patch it up, so that's not good either.

Next up was an oil leak. This turns out to be seals in the engine block not put in correctly when the engine was rebuilt last year due to camel failure. So a big welcome back to alfa ownership for me . They're going to change the spark plugs whilst their replacing the seals to bring the bill up to £600 plus vat

big :thumbs: to simply alfa who have lent me a 147 until it's done which should be next week hopefully.

p.s are the plastics in the 147gta as poor as the standard 147? Also 49.3mpg average on this one being a jtd, so should claw back the majority on fuel over the next week lol

Oh no! How did the camel fail? Got the hump??:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs: