OIL IN WATER!

[mattyboy]

Hi folks, am looking at buying a transit 2001 on a y plate.
the only thing is that there is oil in the water
he says it drives fine and all that.
can anyone help me and tell me whats wrong or how to fix if i did buy the van and how much
cheers matty

[jay]

possible oil cooler failure but also usually gets water in the oil as well..or headgasket..Or very possible some dozy idiot has just put oil in the water expansion bottle.

[selfwood]

Had same fault with mine but left it too long...oil eventually knackered the radiator & various pipes aswell...£450 with everything raplaced with a 2nd hand oil cooler which i was told costs about £380 new....had to flush the header out once more after a weeks running in....working fine now...

[GBBiker]

Hi folks, am looking at buying a transit 2001 on a y plate.
the only thing is that there is oil in the water
he says it drives fine and all that.
can anyone help me and tell me whats wrong or how to fix if i did buy the van and how much
cheers matty

Unless you are prepared to spend upwards of £500 straight away for parts alone, I'd be looking elsewhere.

[darkbluevanman]

Had same fault with mine but left it too long.....

If you had a banging headache for a week... how much longer would you leave that?

Smoke alarm doesn't work, batteries dead.. I'll do it next week!

Cut meself, it's started to go green and hurt, I'll leave it a few days to see if it clears up....

You've got until now to late November this year to check your anti-freeze!

[GBBiker]

Had same fault with mine but left it too long.....

If you had a banging headache for a week... how much longer would you leave that?

Smoke alarm doesn't work, batteries dead.. I'll do it next week!

Cut meself, it's started to go green and hurt, I'll leave it a few days to see if it clears up....

You've got until now to late November this year to check your anti-freeze!

[winterheating]

Hi folks, am looking at buying a transit 2001 on a y plate.
the only thing is that there is oil in the water
he says it drives fine and all that.
can anyone help me and tell me whats wrong or how to fix if i did buy the van and how much
cheers matty

the question is how long has it been like this

should be able to get an oil cooler for less than £150 at the very most 2nd hand, then fush the system out with washing up liquid(exellent degreaser) and should be fine, just get it at right price, head gasket is not very likely at all.

[selfwood]

Had same fault with mine but left it too long.....

If you had a banging headache for a week... how much longer would you leave that?

Smoke alarm doesn't work, batteries dead.. I'll do it next week!

Cut meself, it's started to go green and hurt, I'll leave it a few days to see if it clears up....

You've got until now to late November this year to check your anti-freeze!

Its called having a job that requires constant use of your van...no van....no work.....no pay.....no good.....knacker

[darkbluevanman]

Had same fault with mine but left it too long.....

If you had a banging headache for a week... how much longer would you leave that?

Smoke alarm doesn't work, batteries dead.. I'll do it next week!

Cut meself, it's started to go green and hurt, I'll leave it a few days to see if it clears up....

You've got until now to late November this year to check your anti-freeze!

Its called having a job that requires constant use of your van...no van....no work.....no pay.....no good.....knacker

Noooo.... ''£450 with everything raplaced with a 2nd hand oil cooler which i was told costs about £380 new....''

Van hire from £29 a day, 450 = about 15 days hire... even the drummer from Def Leppard could have done the repairs in that time!!

In the end it WAS off the road and cost you £450?, not arguing, just stating the obvious!