LHD MG ZS 180 MK2 has arrived

[Ritchy]

Ive had issues with stuff from there, stick your ground and tell him its not financially viable for you to send it back and its clearly damaged.
Personally i wouldn't use him, have stuck him up in the name and shame section previosly.

[Jason04r]

I've sent an email , not being rude at all so lets see the response. I think they value there feedback and seems i purchased two separate items i could give them bad feedback for both as a "up yours" if they don't sort it.

[petet16]

They can be a patchy seller, I've had some bits which have been fine, and others which were plainly damaged and unusable but they still packed them and sent them, in fairness replacements were sent quickly, but it doesn't make up for sending the damaged ones in the first place.

Used 180 rads seem to be like rocking horse poo at the moment, I would solder up the holes and see how it goes.

[Dan1971]

Originally Posted by petet16

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Used 180 rads seem to be like rocking horse poo at the moment, I would solder up the holes and see how it goes.

Mine will be available in a couple of weeks like I said, when I get my mate round and we drop the engine and gearbox out onto a pallet. I like comments like that though Pete - just bumped the price up ....

[petet16]

oops

I'm surprised none of the aftermarket rad makers, or xpart for that matter have not covered the 180 rad.

[Skillen]

Any resemblance between 75/ZT v6 rads and ours?

[Enright]

Originally Posted by petet16

Used 180 rads seem to be like rocking horse poo at the moment, I would solder up the holes and see how it goes.

That's interesting, how would you do it - would you use a blowtorch or something?
I wondered about repair methods when I recently discovered a hole in my aircon radiator, although aircon systems seem to run at a much higher pressure than coolant systems - like about 100PSI. And re-gassing them if the repair doesn't hold isn't cheap either.
Still, could have a bash and try pressure-testing it afterwards to see if it holds or hisses...

[stamford]

Blow torch (if hot enough) and silver solder I guess. May pay to take any rad to a specialist to get pressure tested and repaired. My local radiator specialist has since gone, shame he was good too and used to sponsor the race car.

[Jason04r]

I don't know anyone around my area which does this type of repair. I'll try the solder repair with the old blowtorch. I've fixed PC water cooling radiators this way but they don't have the same amount of pressure...

Will update tonight

[petet16]

Originally Posted by Enright

That's interesting, how would you do it - would you use a blowtorch or something?
I wondered about repair methods when I recently discovered a hole in my aircon radiator, although aircon systems seem to run at a much higher pressure than coolant systems - like about 100PSI. And re-gassing them if the repair doesn't hold isn't cheap either.
Still, could have a bash and try pressure-testing it afterwards to see if it holds or hisses...

I've only ever done it once on a old style brass rad that had a crack around one of the unions, but a blow lamp and silver solder was what I used, not a very pretty repair, but it did seal it.