Hi there. im new in this forum.
I have an x trail 2005 (t30) with 80k. I have 2 years with this amazing car and everything was well, but i have a little problem with radiator cap.
The coolant in the reservoir tank was boiling and escaping for the upper .
The reservoir tank was not broken, radiator hose upper and lower was ok. No leaks in the floor. Radiator wasnt broken. So i changed the radiator cap, was the original one .88 -13 lbs in the nissan dealer. I filled the radiator to neck and purge the system, added some coolant to get to the top and filled the reservoir tank to max level when cool and drove for a week.
The problem had been fixed, i thought....
The coolant in the reservoir tank its not boiling anymore. Now the coolant level goes down like a centimeter in the scale between the max and min level of the reservoir tank. Everytime that i use the car the level goes down a centimeter. So i noticed, when i parked after a 10 miles trip, that the radiator cap had a sound like boiling water (Pressure leak), the sound was just in the radiator cap, and was totally new (nissan original). :crying:
So i cleaned the radiator in the workshop, and used the radiator cap tester on the radiator cap and radiator, radiator and hoses was ok, but radiator cap (the new one) had no the required specs according to the tool. So the manager of the workshop suggest a new radiator cap 0.9 - 13 lbs, a little bit different than the original .88 - 13 lbs, so I took it and filled the levels to the right parameters again.
I drove the car like a week and everything looked normal, on friday i parked, opened the hood and check the Pressure leak, i heard the sound again from the radiator cap!!! I can hear the leak just for a few minutes then everything goes back to normal, i mean the coolant in the reservoir tank starts to return to the radiator.
When the car its cold the level goes down a bit more that last day. But when is warm the level is at max. When cold goes down a centimeter under the mark of the last day, everytime gets lower, but i refill a little every week.
In the morning the level goes down everytime.
I dont think that this is normal. Radiator doesnt have leaks, radiator neck wasn't broken, i dont see white smoke in the morning or any malfunction, just the pressure leak in radiator cap...the car does not overheat, its the second cap that i changed in 2 months,
whats happening? :crying:
I have an x trail 2005 (t30) with 80k. I have 2 years with this amazing car and everything was well, but i have a little problem with radiator cap.
The coolant in the reservoir tank was boiling and escaping for the upper .
The reservoir tank was not broken, radiator hose upper and lower was ok. No leaks in the floor. Radiator wasnt broken. So i changed the radiator cap, was the original one .88 -13 lbs in the nissan dealer. I filled the radiator to neck and purge the system, added some coolant to get to the top and filled the reservoir tank to max level when cool and drove for a week.
The problem had been fixed, i thought....
The coolant in the reservoir tank its not boiling anymore. Now the coolant level goes down like a centimeter in the scale between the max and min level of the reservoir tank. Everytime that i use the car the level goes down a centimeter. So i noticed, when i parked after a 10 miles trip, that the radiator cap had a sound like boiling water (Pressure leak), the sound was just in the radiator cap, and was totally new (nissan original). :crying:
So i cleaned the radiator in the workshop, and used the radiator cap tester on the radiator cap and radiator, radiator and hoses was ok, but radiator cap (the new one) had no the required specs according to the tool. So the manager of the workshop suggest a new radiator cap 0.9 - 13 lbs, a little bit different than the original .88 - 13 lbs, so I took it and filled the levels to the right parameters again.
I drove the car like a week and everything looked normal, on friday i parked, opened the hood and check the Pressure leak, i heard the sound again from the radiator cap!!! I can hear the leak just for a few minutes then everything goes back to normal, i mean the coolant in the reservoir tank starts to return to the radiator.
When the car its cold the level goes down a bit more that last day. But when is warm the level is at max. When cold goes down a centimeter under the mark of the last day, everytime gets lower, but i refill a little every week.
In the morning the level goes down everytime.
I dont think that this is normal. Radiator doesnt have leaks, radiator neck wasn't broken, i dont see white smoke in the morning or any malfunction, just the pressure leak in radiator cap...the car does not overheat, its the second cap that i changed in 2 months,
whats happening? :crying: