MR T’s temperature gauge warning light flashed up this evening on the way home from work; after aiming and achieving the hard shoulder I peered about under the bonnet and saw the coolant was slowly boiling itself out of the reservoir with the previously fine-and-dandy halfway level a thing of the past. In the lights of passing traffic could see my poor car bleeding onto the tarmac :(
I thought it must be my fault for not clearing that evening’s leaf fall out of the air intakes near the windscreen and I felt like a dumbass because I used to have coolant in the car but had taken it out a while back.
Although I was shivering behind the Armco by the time I was rescued at least it wasn’t raining hurrah. Ryan the lovely RAC man got stuck in traffic from an accident further up from where i’d pulled over so it was an hour ’til he reached me, but after topping the coolant up with water and a quick burst down the A329M I made it home, where he pulled out the thermostat and all seems to be well again. Something cheap to fix. Phew.
