K-seal resurrected my Preseige!

After water pump went last Nov and I drove it until Jan just topping up with water several times a day (it seemed to be OK when warm but lost loads occasionally on starting and always on cooling down) the indie's were giving me the head shake due to bubbles in expansion tank when warming up. They are very good and even pointed me towards the ad for the new blu VSX one rather than spending more on the old one.

I went as far as getting a number for a scrap dealer but couldn't BARE to part with it.
Whilst picking up a F reg Passat estate that I borrowed for a few weeks to tide me over
we had the AA out (!) and I talked thru the XM thing with the guy, and he showed me a bottle of K-seal! I had previously tried something else from Motaman that had no effect.

To cut a very long story short, the third bottle of K-seal did stop all the bubbling. The car lay mostly idle untill oct due to needing rear brakes and new cam tensioner, but I've done over 600 miles in it since (when it has both mirrors on and even better sounds again too!). No coolant loss in that time, and I havn't checked often but I have checked and no bubbles in the coolant since that 3rd bottle of K-sela went in.

The bottle claims its a permament repair for 80% of HG problems. Others shake their heads and say "surely its just a temp fix". Only 2 ways to know really, either wait for HG to fail or have it done. My finances dictate the former option at present. I spent more on that car in the last year than any year since 1998.

Re heater matrix, I'd give it a go mate, I think the claim is it fixes any leak up to .8mm diameter.

I wish I'd known about K-seal before I had the water pump replaced, to be honest.

That's encouraging Tim!

I think I'll give it a go. Mind you, I've searched everywhere, and can't find the bottle I had, so may well have to order more.

Did you just pour it in the expansion tank, or do you need to put it in one of the hoses?

Cheers

Ciarán

Maybe there is a local stockist foor you. Motaman has it here and a specialist car shop just down the road from my indie.

I did make the mistake in the gloom of last feb of overfilling it with the first two bottles, maybe that was why they weren't that effective, just spilled out, but also with the third bottle I did drive it for over an hour after adding it to the expansion tank rather than just getting it up to temp parked as I did before that. The "smart" component of K-seal seems to like high temperatures.

Hi Ciaran

Done 3 of these now - Two Series Ones and a SERIES TWO!!

Yes S2 Xantias still suffer a crap matrix, but I Found a S2 a little easyer to do though, the dash is in more "One Piece" construction, caertainly around the steering colum that holds the Hazard and Air con Buttons, and behind the scenes of the radio too.

Its not a hard job, but a bit involved, hence people rather throw the cars away then get it done for the sake of 25 quid or so for a matrix.

Luckily then on XM's the dash does NOT need to come out to be done, it slides out from under the drivers side foot well.... Prehaps a good idea, as we could have lost more XM's to that problem too..

Rgds
citroenxm