Dear Forum,
Do not know whether it is a rule to create a topic per question but hopefully two in one topic is not a problem? I did some research on this forum and the web, but could not find satisfactory answers yet (or I did not look well enough
).
The first question is more like "could this be a problem or is it a feature"? When I click on the window button for the window on driver's side (electric) it goes down but stops at around 1 to 1.5 inch before disappearing in the door. When clicking again, it fully opens. The same reaction is shown the way up. I click on the button, the windows goes up, stops at around 1.5 inch above doorpanel and when I push the button again, some two times, it goes all the way up and closes. Is this as it suppose to be or is the window not completely operational? The window does sound a bit as if it has some resistance but does move smoothly above that 1.5 inch.
The second question is a difficult one, because it regards sound, in this case a bubbling, like water flowing sound behind the heater panel in the dashboard. To be more precise, this sound popped up yesterday evening, once .... and today I could not reproduce a situation in which that sound could or should be heard.
Three weeks ago, the water pump, distribution and coolant is replaced (is that correct English by the way?) and driving on a multitude of different roads in those weeks the engine temperature kept steady as a solid rock. A few days ago I used the heater for the first time and no strange sounds were noticed. Yesterday, after a two mile drive suddenly I heard water flowing and when parking I heard a lot of bubbling behind the heaterpanel. Checking the foot trays everything was dry, no water, no fluid. The rest of the evening everything was okay and the Fiat brought us home safely, on a 90 mile trip.
Searching on the internet today I read stories about broken head gaskets so I got a little concerned. I once read that this type of engine can be sensitive for head gaskets problems, although I never experienced this kind of problems in my former Punto's myself. So I checked the level of coolant, but this reservoir is so unbelievably unreachable that even in the sun and using a flashlight I could not see the level of coolant. I opened the bottleneck and I saw a liquid, but not the G13 pink kind which should be in there. It seemed darker, but then, the position of that reservoir is also in a dark place. As the level seemed in that bottleneck it was at least above minus but not near max.
No water was found under the hood and it hasn't rain that much last week, so this can be ruled out as a cause.
Then I drove for an hour using the heater, small roads and highways and the heater is functioning fine and the engine temperature stayed between 85 and 90 degrees and no smell of smoke or burning underneath the bonnet, so this seems no problem. But what then was that watery, bubbling sound yesterday and why does the coolant color seem so dark?
Thanks for your reaction and kind regards,
Aad
Do not know whether it is a rule to create a topic per question but hopefully two in one topic is not a problem? I did some research on this forum and the web, but could not find satisfactory answers yet (or I did not look well enough
).The first question is more like "could this be a problem or is it a feature"? When I click on the window button for the window on driver's side (electric) it goes down but stops at around 1 to 1.5 inch before disappearing in the door. When clicking again, it fully opens. The same reaction is shown the way up. I click on the button, the windows goes up, stops at around 1.5 inch above doorpanel and when I push the button again, some two times, it goes all the way up and closes. Is this as it suppose to be or is the window not completely operational? The window does sound a bit as if it has some resistance but does move smoothly above that 1.5 inch.
The second question is a difficult one, because it regards sound, in this case a bubbling, like water flowing sound behind the heater panel in the dashboard. To be more precise, this sound popped up yesterday evening, once .... and today I could not reproduce a situation in which that sound could or should be heard.
Three weeks ago, the water pump, distribution and coolant is replaced (is that correct English by the way?) and driving on a multitude of different roads in those weeks the engine temperature kept steady as a solid rock. A few days ago I used the heater for the first time and no strange sounds were noticed. Yesterday, after a two mile drive suddenly I heard water flowing and when parking I heard a lot of bubbling behind the heaterpanel. Checking the foot trays everything was dry, no water, no fluid. The rest of the evening everything was okay and the Fiat brought us home safely, on a 90 mile trip.
Searching on the internet today I read stories about broken head gaskets so I got a little concerned. I once read that this type of engine can be sensitive for head gaskets problems, although I never experienced this kind of problems in my former Punto's myself. So I checked the level of coolant, but this reservoir is so unbelievably unreachable that even in the sun and using a flashlight I could not see the level of coolant. I opened the bottleneck and I saw a liquid, but not the G13 pink kind which should be in there. It seemed darker, but then, the position of that reservoir is also in a dark place. As the level seemed in that bottleneck it was at least above minus but not near max.
No water was found under the hood and it hasn't rain that much last week, so this can be ruled out as a cause.
Then I drove for an hour using the heater, small roads and highways and the heater is functioning fine and the engine temperature stayed between 85 and 90 degrees and no smell of smoke or burning underneath the bonnet, so this seems no problem. But what then was that watery, bubbling sound yesterday and why does the coolant color seem so dark?
Thanks for your reaction and kind regards,
Aad
- Model
- Fiat Panda 169 1.2
- Year
- 2009
- Mileage
- 85675
