Well after 142000 miles she finally let go 
On the M4 tonight got flashed from behind, WTF I thought, had a peek in the rear view mirror
and OMFG, I looked like a Red Arrow
Hasty exit to the hard shoulder, plumes billowing from the front, grabbed my bottle of Famous Grouse, box of Fosters and other crimbo pressies and retreated to the embankment
Thought it was going to catch fire
Dialled 999 in a panic by which time the wafting had subsided a tadge (phew)
She was very helpful and I called a local 24 hour recovery who sent the WRONG truck as the Cupra was too low to go on
He looked inside and found that a hose had popped and that was the reason for billowing steam down the M4, two and a half litres of it!!!
Sods law he said he could fix it there but had no water on board and was ringing the office, they decided to send a another lorry, low loader beacuse my towing eye snapped in the holder, as she was still driveable I said drive it on.
Next the Motorway monkey's turn up, take my number and ask if I have overheated, have a wild guess and say the control office would ring me soon to see if I was OK - STILL WAITING FOR THE CALL!! what do they actually do 
Anyhow, picked up back to local depot where the mechanic has a looksie, puts back the hose and refills with coolant. She was running fine but no heating, top pipe hot bottom pipe cold, Je said could be an airblock or Thermostat gone. As I only live about half a mile away decided to limp home and take to Seat in the morning BUT on the journey the heating came on FULL wack. SO.......
Have I done any damage?
there was NO high temp warning
she's running fine
heating is working
no leaks
would VAGCOM have logged any errors
Not nice standing/dancing on the hard shoulder for nearly two hours
On the M4 tonight got flashed from behind, WTF I thought, had a peek in the rear view mirror
and OMFG, I looked like a Red Arrow
Hasty exit to the hard shoulder, plumes billowing from the front, grabbed my bottle of Famous Grouse, box of Fosters and other crimbo pressies and retreated to the embankment
Thought it was going to catch fire
Dialled 999 in a panic by which time the wafting had subsided a tadge (phew)
She was very helpful and I called a local 24 hour recovery who sent the WRONG truck as the Cupra was too low to go on
He looked inside and found that a hose had popped and that was the reason for billowing steam down the M4, two and a half litres of it!!!
Sods law he said he could fix it there but had no water on board and was ringing the office, they decided to send a another lorry, low loader beacuse my towing eye snapped in the holder, as she was still driveable I said drive it on.
Next the Motorway monkey's turn up, take my number and ask if I have overheated, have a wild guess
and say the control office would ring me soon to see if I was OK - STILL WAITING FOR THE CALL!! what do they actually do Anyhow, picked up back to local depot where the mechanic has a looksie, puts back the hose and refills with coolant. She was running fine but no heating, top pipe hot bottom pipe cold,
Je said could be an airblock or Thermostat gone. As I only live about half a mile away decided to limp home and take to Seat in the morning BUT on the journey the heating came on FULL wack. SO.......Have I done any damage?
there was NO high temp warning
she's running fine
heating is working
no leaks
would VAGCOM have logged any errors
Not nice standing/dancing on the hard shoulder for nearly two hours
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