Thanks, I will try and get that tester, if not available in country will buy one in. The ATM oil still looks good nice red colour, no smell. Same with engine oil (brown) no foam. But its possible the level has risen. Hard to tell. ANyway the test is next, may take a few weeks before I have the kit t...

The water pump and timing belt were changed about 15 months ago. The car is driven lightly, only about 10-20km per day less than 50km/h (no roads here!). I am not aware it ever overheated, no. It is the sludge in the expansion tank that is completely new. It is definitely oil. Before this the coolan...

Spoke too soon.... I tried it out down the road, about 4km with the steep hill back to our house (only about 200m and rise of 150m) and it started overheating, loosing power until it died on me just at the top. The expansion tank is squirting coolant. The coolant is also already light brown in colou...

You know, you may be right. I have not dared road test the car since we did the maintenance on the fuel pump and changed all those sensors, fuel filter and coil. It seems the engine is running really well but then we noticed the coolant issue. We live top of a hill and I didn't want to have it die o...

No it is air tight, I assure you. The system holds great pressure. The video link you showed me explains that is the strong indicator for head gasket. Exhaust gases entering the coolant spaces displacing the water. Before the coolant level would stay rock steady month in month out. It would also idl...

Thanks, noted. But now we have the car running really smoothly, it was probably in need of a tune. But those issues were a red herring from what seems to be pointing to blown head gasket. The poor running when warm/hot could actually be overheating. I established that with the coolant at the min mar...

1996 non turbo B5252S auto I live in a Pacific Islands country, no dealer and no code reader etc. the car started stalling when warm. Would run fine until warmed up then stall and not start until cold again. We have changed fuel relay, fuel filter, checked pump, cam sensor, rpm sensor, plugs, coolan...

Has been very reliable always started first time. Suddenly today, turn the key and a click only. Battery is new and good, we tried with jump leads to another car as well. I tried moving the gear shift (automatic) a few times in case it was the switch. When turning the key to "on" position,...