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MG MGF Technical - coolant for 1998mgf

Hi just bought a 1998 mgf and the seller told me to keep topping up the coolant regularly, having had the car 2 days the resevoir ran quite low so i toped it up checked not long after and it needs more, is this a design flaw as told by the seller or is there a problem.
thanks
Mark
Mark

A Problem with a Capital 'P'
Coolant pipe Leaks. £50 plus
Radiator Leaks. £100 plus
Head Gasket Failure £500 to a New Engine.
Best advise. Dump it and get your money back.
Geoff F.
Geoff Farthing

Woops Mark,

Seller has told you a lie. MGF /TF should loose NO water.

You should never have to top up the coolant that often, so you have a leak somewhere.

MGF suffer badly from blown headgaskets and so any coolant loss can rapidly lead to this. Lost of people have coolant alarms installed to catch a loolant loss and try and prevent a dreaded Head Gasket failure, and so these coolant alarms would be going off all the time.

I think its time to go back to seller and get refund

Brian
Brian

For sure a lemon.
Even though, the seller may not know what he was talking about.

Drive it back very carefully and and get your money back, or let it fix on cost of the seller.
Geoff gave an indication what it will cost.

Regards
Dieter
Dieter

In my experience with an MGF for two and a half years, you should almost never have to touch the coolant bottle. If the level is dropping, something is wrong and must be fixed immediately. If it runs out of coolant, you will wreck the engine.
Mike Howlett

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