To my understanding coolant will be in the 3 areas, 1, 2 and 3 as highlighted in my picture?
part 1 always seems to run dry causing the dash coolant light to flash red so i top it up with just water till max but after 5-6 drives it will go near dry again n needs topped up were part 2-3 will be steady.
Is there something up with my car or is that just the way it works?
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Hi mate.
from my understanding number 1 is overflow and pushes out excess water into it and pulls water in under vacuum when reqd.
sounds like 1 either this has a small leak as just plastic and poss faulty level switch in 2. If 2 and 3 are staying bang on then looks ok to me.
coolant switch common failure.
You will find that you need only to fill via number 2 and 1& 3,will find their own level
If you just fill every thing up it will keep blowing water out
Hope this helps
Thanks for the answers…..
check your ast cap... mine was not a pressure cap and was causing that to happen ( can also happen if pressure cap fails)