tornoutlaw

Thanks for all the info everyone. I've always thought they might be Work VS-XX wheels but never sure. I'm gonna be parting ways with them but wouldn't want to sell them as genuine if they turned out to be copies.

Hi everyone, was wondering if anyone knows anything about the wheels on my Zed. I've been told they are Work wheels but I'm not too sure. Any thoughts are welcome! Cheers John

Think I'm going to go down the route of replacing the radiator and adding a separate oil cooler for the auto box. Looks like it should be pretty straight forward to do, but if anyone has any tips for this job I'd welcome them. Main thing I'm thinking about is if I can clamp or tie off the auto oil pipes so I don't have oil going everywhere when I take the radiator out. Going to use this opportunity to replace the gearbox oil too I think. I saw somewhere that it is filled using the drivers side dip-stick, is this right? If anyone has any good radiator brands (coolant or the oil one) I'd appreciate some info. Thanks again everyone for all your help, really good information from everyone! John

Hi everyone Taken a look this evening. The coolant is leaking from the very top of the radiator housing. Someone has done a bit of a bodge fixing it in the past with some putty stuff and looks like its finally give up, so new radiator time I think. As my car is a JDM automatic I'm thinking that the radiator is also used for cooling the gearbox oil, so guess I'm going to have to get a radiator and a separate oil cooler too, correct me if I'm wrong. I've included some pics for everyone's perusal! Cheers all!

I really appreciate all the advice everyone, some really good stuff. Went back to the car with a few bottles of water, topped up the radiator. It drank it all so I don't really know how much was missing. Was able to get the car home with no issues, was only 1/4 of a mile so the car didn't even get to temperature on the way back. I left it running on the drive for a bit and it got up to operating temperature (just below half way on the gauge) and seems okay, no steam or anything. It's pissing it down at the moment so it's going to be a job for my day off to clean it all up in there and try and locate the source of the leak. Bit worried about potentially having a blown head gasket, I've checked the oil on both sides and it looks really clean, no white residue that I've been told to look for. Also no smoke from the exhaust when it's at temperature. Fingers crossed its okay. Cheers everyone

To be honest I wouldn't be surprised if the rad or one of the pipes to it is shot, the roads around here are so bad and my suspension so stiff it must get some real jolts.

Whilst my car is a N/A, I think the Rad cap is off a TT as its pressure rated to 1.2 (I think). Doubt it makes a difference, but my thoughts at the time where that is was leaking from either the cap, the overflow or maybe the seams at the top of the radiator itself. As far as I could tell the steam was coming from the front right of the engine bay, near the main fuse box area. Those two big pipes at the front of the engine block were a little splattered but mostly dry. I'll take a good look this evening after work and test it, and report back. Cheers

Okay, will do. Thanks for all the help vodkashots!

As far as I am aware the whole AC system is hacked out, so nothing related to that I guess. Looking at the pictures I took on my phone, all the fluid is splattered around the right of the radiator (when looking at the car from the front). What is the hose that is attached to the top of the radiator fill cap? Cheers everyone

Ah, I was told the aircon was deleted, guess thats why then. Ill refill it in the morning. At the moment the car is parked at the top of my town, so i'll need to move it. Would I be able to drive it about half a mile, or is it a tow job? Cheers

Just pulled up at some lights, steam started gushing out from under the bonnet, temp gauge all the way to the top. Pulled her over and took a look under the bonnet, lots of greenish coolant everywhere. Clearly something has gone wrong XD Anyway, took a few snaps of the engine bay, can you guys take a look and tell me what you think? (sorry the pics are blurry) The last one makes me think that a belt is missing, I can't find a good picture of that area though. Cheers John

Just saw what I think was a black one with high spoiler, Cheltenham town centre about 9:00 PM!

I'm not a big fan of the scoop on the sides, but I really like the way the arches have been defined.

Hi folks, just saw this whilst poking around in the interwebs: http://wp.me/p10kB8-1AV Thoughts? Cheers, John

Really nice!