Ooops just immobilised my D3
Why does my D3 always run into problems.
The coolant bottle has a break on the return pipe, so got a new tank and went to swap it tonight and got stuck.
Disconnected both upper pipes, and sure enough the return pipe is very broken.
Set about undoing the only three bolts that hold it in place only to find that all three captive nuts are spinning so the bolts will not come out.
So now I have a car I cannot reattach the coolant pipe on without coolant going everywhere so cannot be started.
Doh.
Somehow these three nuts need to come out, i've tried mole grips on the bottom one, but it looks like corrosion has got the better of them.
You can see the break in this picture, I wonder if I can do a temp fix or .....
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Manny
2004 A4 1.8T Sport Cabriolet, 89K Miles
Past
2004 D3 A8 3.7 Quattro, Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Solar Sunroof, TV, ACC, phone and almost every option. 168K miles rising slowly
with retrofit AMI and DVB-T in place of Analogue
2003 Volvo S60 D5 SE Manual, 197K miles.
2001 D2 A8 3.7 QS, Bi-Xenon, Bose, Blinds, Electric Everything, retrofitted RNS-D, 191K Miles
Last edited by mannyo; 22nd September 2016 at 05:25 PM.
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