Such a nice day - shame about the leaky hose!

It was such a lovely day again today that I took the father-in-law out in the Stag for a run at lunchtime - his comment during the drive was ' isn't the car running nicely?' - full of confidence I replied, yes its been running really well since its service last month.

FOOL!!!!!

Got home, parked up to get a few things before going out again when I noticed a pool of coolant under the car - a cursory examination confirmed it wasn't from the expansion bottle overflow - damn - as I was pushed for time, put it in the garage and went out in the Superb.

Just had a better look at the engine and after 5 mins running the water issued forth from a pinhole leak in the angled hose that connects to the water pump - phew - I was imagining all sorts of water pump problems.