Mark Ewing
New member
I have just bought my son a 2001 Seicento Sporting 1.1 Michael Schumacher to learn to drive on. It's covered 41,000 miles and seems well mainatained with a very clean engine compartment. Unfortunately, during driving practise around an empty industrial estate at weekends, with lots of 1st gear work and stop/start motoring the engine overheat warning light comes on. The expansion tank is full - a little overfilled I would have said - and there appears no loss of fluid. I can hear the cooling fan coming on, although strangely not when the warning light is on, only before that point. I'm assuming that this is not normal so returning the car to the vendor is the only option. I have left the car idling for 30 minutes and it didn't overheat at all, and the fan came on and off predictably. It just doesn't seem to like what would be the equivalent of a bad traffic jam.
Does anyone with experience of this model have any ideas?
Does anyone with experience of this model have any ideas?