Thread: Radiator Overflow Bottle - how does the low level sensor work? Coolant Level Low Warn

Yes, and the float in the bottle “loses its float”. A new bottle is the answer.

Originally Posted by BradC

Yes, and the float in the bottle “loses its float”. A new bottle is the answer.

Cheers.

With new bottles genuine only or are any of the pattern units (Britpart, Meyle-HD, AllMakes, Eurospare, EAC) ok for this part? I ask as the genuine doesn't seem to have an overly great life and is 3.5 times the price of pattern offerings.

I bought an aftermarket and it was faulty from the start. I had to reuse my old genuine sensor to get it to work. I’d go genuine with hindsight

Before I started doing my own work on the car our indy fitted an aftermarket part which turned out to have a pinhole leak in one of the seams, so another visit for diagnostics to find the leak and delay while a new one was procured.

I'm sure whatever they "saved" by recommending the aftermarket part was eaten in diagnostics and labour, and it sure cost me more in time than I was likely to have saved in cost.

Mine was replaced as well, just use the genuine product and forget about it.

From memory the part wasn't that expensive.

I used the cheap Britpart locking mechanism. Had an awful handle feel and when it started to fail again (sooner than genuine) I went back to genuine and much better. Tactile things are the worst to cut corners on!

I have had some non-genuine wins but more often than not it’s been a false economy

I used a Britpart one on my D3. Diagnosed and fitted myself. Worked fine until selling car. Probably in for 12 months before I sold it. IIRC it was a PIA to get hoses back on (but I could be wrong)

I bought mine from British Auto Parts in Bayswater Victoria - they had me sold when the description just says:

“This is not the cheap Britpart item.”