When I turn off the engine, I can hear a gurgling sound. It never overheats. They do have to add coolant at every oil change--every 3000 miles. It has about 65,000 miles on it & a 5 speed manual transmission.
2007-01-08 12:11:20 · 4 answers · asked by flinch 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Volkswagen
Look for a leaking head gasket issue. The coolant is going someplace and it is getting air from somewhere and that where would be from a cylinder. Take it to a garage and have them sniff the coolant(a sniffer tool is an electronic device with a mini microphone that can detect auto exhaust in the coolant and it beeps when it is present.) Has to be fixed.
2007-01-08 12:23:03 · answer #1 · answered by ButwhatdoIno? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To find out if there is a possible head gasket leak or somewhere in the system have any mechanic hook a preassure tester up to the radiator resivor and load the system up with about 14-16 lbs of preassure. give it a few mins and if the guage wont hold a stedy amount of preassure in it you definanlty got a leak of some sort in the system. while the wait is going on he will gheck around the needed areas of the engine. Somthing will show up one way or another, especialy if you have to add antifreeze every time its time to change the oil.
2007-01-08 20:45:06 · answer #2 · answered by vankstwer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gurgle is the coolant being sucked to the overflow tank, you could have a leaky pump or a week headgasget and be burning coolant out the exhaust
2007-01-08 20:30:33 · answer #3 · answered by peterosefan1414 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had a coolant leak on my 97 gti vr6, and it came from the gasket on the thermostat housing (i had a cracked housing also). check all of the coolant lines too.
if you can see coolant anywhere on your engine (it dries pasty pinkish red), then trace it to the source, and you have your leak.
or it could just be something as silly as a bad O ring on the housing, causing a loss of vaccuum.
2007-01-08 20:48:24 · answer #4 · answered by Kyle M 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋