Thread: KV6 overheating
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Old 1st June 2019, 08:16   #32
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Take the expansion bottle cap off and run the car from cold, see if you have water returning from the little return valve hole in the neck of the bottle, chances are is that you don't.

I bet coolant quickly rises and spills out within seconds, you most probably have a blocked corroded oil cooler
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