Problem?

[imprezapete]

Well I noticed this on and off for some time, but nearly all the time after I have started the car in the morning I get a gurgling liquid noise from the what would be dash/engine bay area when reving the car. Its not always there at times and generally never after the car has been running for a while.

Can any tell me what it is? I'm a bit worried it could be bad :S

Air Con?

Cheers

Pete

[st3ph3n]

Pete, you've not got something silly like a bottle of de-icer sitting behind you that's slooshing about?

[imprezapete]

Thats no

[st3ph3n]

I only say that from past experience

[gus the bus]

Pete,

Air in the coolant system is my suggestion. Had this with the 300 when I did all the samco hoses. top up the header tank (not the reservoir) and run it for a day, then again and again until the level remains the same.

solved my problem anyway

[euan_r]

fit gus says

[imprezapete]

Ok that would fix a problem, but what caused the problem? I havent changed any hoses

[euan_r]

if its an older car hoses could be perished round the clips. other cause could be leaky matrix or radiator.

there is another alternative but you dont really want to know.

headgasket but look for easier fixes first

[thewelsho]

if its an older car hoses could be perished round the clips. other cause could be leaky matrix or radiator.

there is another alternative but you dont really want to know.

headgasket but look for easier fixes first

MY06 does the same. Hasn't done it in a while, but did it the other day. Also my MY04 Celica was particularly bad for this. Never did find out what it was.

[imprezapete]

This has been doing this for months on and off, would a head gasket not go fast? Also it got its MOT in Feb and Chris Alan at east linton who did the MOT said nothing about any issues. Mind you would a MOT person or Chris notice that when doing a MOT?

[thewelsho]

This has been doing this for months on and off, would a head gasket not go fast? Also it got its MOT in Feb and Chris Alan at east linton who did the MOT said nothing about any issues. Mind you would a MOT person or Chris notice that when doing a MOT?

I doubt very much that it is a head gasket, I wouldn't worry about that. As I said, my car was doing this a lot and I never bothered about it. Later, I broke a piston and the engine was rebuilt using the same block but with replacement forged-pistons. Before rebuilding the engine, the car went through extensive tests in order to find the fault (you wouldn't jsut pull an engine apart, would you?) and at no point was the head gasket diagnosed as being at fault. I have read from other posts that the most likely casue of this is in fact the heater matrix.

[imprezapete]

ok the liquid gurge noise is coming from the passenger dash area or that area of the engine bay against the passenger dash area if that makes sense....

[thewelsho]

ok the liquid gurge noise is coming from the passenger dash area or that area of the engine bay against the passenger dash area if that makes sense....

Yip, exactly where mine came from, still never got to the bottom of it, sorry!

[steven_kirk]

My car is doing exactly the same as this, seems to go away once the car has heated up or driven for a wee while. I was thinking it might be the heater matrix and had fingers crossed it wasnt something bad!