radiator overflow water comming out Diagnosis please??

[hairless]

1997 Pug 106
Err I'm no mechanic, after I run my daughters car for a few miles and it gets hot, when I stop the water leaks out from the small hole just below the radiator cap and oozes/squirts out about a pint and a half of water.
The Pug 106 is a 1997 1.6 petrol with 26k on the clock FSH and has had a new radiator fitted last september (previous keeper) but has only run about 10 miles since then.
The miles are genuine. My daughter has just bought it from a lady in her late 80s who has given up driving and my daughter knows the lady well andshe had owned the car for at least 10 years.

Diagnosis please ??
No mayo in the oil cap, no oil in the water/antifreeze. oil looks fine on the dipstick.
No temp gague, just a red light on dash (not yet lit up)
Rad fans kick in ok.

[307pugpete]

Sounds like an airlock. Try bleeding the system through. Although just re read the post , is the cap faulty? My CC cap leaked so i bought another off Fleabay and it did the trick !

[hairless]

Thanks 307pugpete,
I went to the garage today and felt a complete adult male chicken !!
I apears that the old bird had filled up the res with water and I did too after it spat its contents (the overflow ) Doh!! , only to find out that the mark we were filling up to was eronneous and there was a fill tab part way down the bottle thus allowing expansion and therefore we were overfilling the tank,

[stevoxsi]

And the GOLDEN COCK award goes too.....

At least it was a cheap fix.....!

[hairless]

I'm used to MX5s the last time I opened the bonnet on my mx was 7 years ago the day I bought it! since 2005 ive had 1 exhaust, 1 disk and brakes change in 70k miles,

[PureJoe]

Originally Posted by hairless

Thanks 307pugpete,
I appears that the old bird had filled up the res with water and I did too after it spat its contents (the overflow )

Don't feel too bad, could have been worse: my son's 106 was losing water. He had managed to overfill it too. I drained a little out and also diagnosed a faulty rad-cap (which it happened to have). Once a new one was fitted, the pressure rose nicely, and it revealed a leaking radiator.

[307pugpete]

Nice cheap repair then chief (weve all been there before)

[hairless]

hopefully every fix wil be this cheap, but I doubt it, Big thank you to all contributers