Hi everyone, I’ve just picked up an L405 SDV8, it drove lovely, has service history and everything is good drove 70 miles home all fine.
About a mile from home it pops up coolant level low, didn’t think much of it and had to go somewhere about 15 mins drive past home quickly.

On motorway notice bit of a steam trail so stop in services, coolant all under the car, steaming off exhausts etc, looks like bit of a pool of it in the V of the engine and dripping down.
It’s obviously quite a bad one as topped it up with water to get it home and it’s dropped it.
Engine never overheated or moved past the middle on gauge and no mayo etc so thankfully not cooked it or anything!.

This is clearly something that has just happened though as the car wouldn’t have made the journey back behaving normally otherwise.

Are there any places where they’re known to have issues from?, it’s definitely not a small leak at all, it won’t be getting driven until sorted.

My first call would be to the garage who sold it to you. 2018 SE SDV8 4.4 Byron Blue

Assume you bought privately?

Jon

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic48509.html

The link refers to a common failure on L322’s 4.4 tdV8.
Just worth lifting the plastic engine cover on yours to check because they are very fragile when hot.

Mike. G reg 2.5VM Vogue Portofino red 1991- 1999
V reg 2.5td P38 Rioja red 1999- 2006
53 reg td6 Vogue Oslo blue 2006- 2015
11 reg 4.4 TdV8 Vogue SE. Baltic blue 2015- date.
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Scouse Exile wrote:

Assume you bought privately?

Jon

Yes, they’re being very decent about it though to be fair, got to get it into a garage asap, thankfully got the work van so can still get around.

I’ve been reading up a lot more and suspect the EGR cooler could be the cause, hopefully a pipe though.

Got coolant under the car, I put some water in just to get a few miles home last night and it has dumped the lot.

It seems to be coming from or getting to the top right of the engine though:

Somewhere in here:

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