Steel seal, and help with searching the forums

Oddjobber_the_1st · 26th February 2024, 13:25

Hello again, I seem to be posting on here nearly every day. Anyway, my beautiful car is a lovely silver 2.5L V6 2001 reg, 190+ petrol MG ZT-T, and I m still having trouble with it. I was noticing the heating was getting warm, even after a long run, and no matter how long I ran it it just would not get warm. I checked all the sensors etc and everything checked out. After running it for a while the thermostat appeared to do as required, and it opened just when it should. So I reached out to the previous owner, as I have done before, and he told me that he got mayonnaise in the oil filler cap, so he poured 2 or 3 bottles of steel seal into the cooling system, to hopefully sort it. I have dealt with steel seal before and it created more trouble than it solved. I emptied the cooling system and fitted a hose and ran the hose for about half an hour. Then I put in 2 bottles of cooling system flush, I forget the manufacturers name but it was yellowy green, as is their coolant, and their screenwash, then I topped it up with water. I then ran the car for an hour with that mix in it, turned the car off, and waited.The following day I drained the system, hosed it out, and refilled with a water/coolant mix, to manufacturers instructions. Started the car and left it running for 45 minutes with no dramas. I took it out today for the first time since then, and no heating. Can somebody give me a clue as to what to do, please
Second thing is, how do I do a search on the forums so that I am not posting the same thing as someone else has done previously to me. I put in the search bar ag the top of the page what am hoping to find, and press enter. It then takes me off the 75 ZT website and onto a normal search on Google, and it has nothing to do with my search on the forums.
I do apologise for forever being on here with problems, but at this moment in time I would like to keep the MG, but that might change very soon if the problems keep coming up.
I thank you so much for reading this far, kind regards, Alan

26th February 2024, 13:25	#1
Oddjobber_the_1st Newbie Mg ZT-T Join Date: Apr 2023 Location: Helhoughton Posts: 28 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Steel seal, and help with searching the forums Hello again, I seem to be posting on here nearly every day. Anyway, my beautiful car is a lovely silver 2.5L V6 2001 reg, 190+ petrol MG ZT-T, and I m still having trouble with it. I was noticing the heating was getting warm, even after a long run, and no matter how long I ran it it just would not get warm. I checked all the sensors etc and everything checked out. After running it for a while the thermostat appeared to do as required, and it opened just when it should. So I reached out to the previous owner, as I have done before, and he told me that he got mayonnaise in the oil filler cap, so he poured 2 or 3 bottles of steel seal into the cooling system, to hopefully sort it. I have dealt with steel seal before and it created more trouble than it solved. I emptied the cooling system and fitted a hose and ran the hose for about half an hour. Then I put in 2 bottles of cooling system flush, I forget the manufacturers name but it was yellowy green, as is their coolant, and their screenwash, then I topped it up with water. I then ran the car for an hour with that mix in it, turned the car off, and waited.The following day I drained the system, hosed it out, and refilled with a water/coolant mix, to manufacturers instructions. Started the car and left it running for 45 minutes with no dramas. I took it out today for the first time since then, and no heating. Can somebody give me a clue as to what to do, please Second thing is, how do I do a search on the forums so that I am not posting the same thing as someone else has done previously to me. I put in the search bar ag the top of the page what am hoping to find, and press enter. It then takes me off the 75 ZT website and onto a normal search on Google, and it has nothing to do with my search on the forums. I do apologise for forever being on here with problems, but at this moment in time I would like to keep the MG, but that might change very soon if the problems keep coming up. I thank you so much for reading this far, kind regards, Alan