Do -it -yourself repair radiator repair, worries many motorists who have encountered this problem on the road.
This article has a solution to the problem. In any case, you yourself will choose the most suitable option.
For such cases, you should use a special sealant for radiators (be sure to buy before the road). This measure is temporary, but all the same, it will allow you to get to the nearest service. But this is about repairs on the road. What if, for a number of objective reasons, you want to restore the radiator for longer use. There are answers in solving this problem.
Two types of radiators are used on cars: metal and plastic.
With metal radiators, everything is simple, stolen a hole and everything is in order for a long time.
With the repair of plastic radiators will have to be tinker. The flow of plastic radiators mainly occurs either in the places of connection of the pipes or in the tanks. These places can also be soldered by a soldering iron, having previously dried these problem areas.
The process technology is as follows:
At first, we make a crush in plastic with a soldering iron.
Then we pour into this furrow, warming the soldering iron, hot plastic.
Align (like a lana) hot soldering iron.
You can also try to glue the plastic radiator with epoxy glue, but as far as I know, more than half of these renovated radiators flow.
But there is one point that you must take into account. The walls of the tank (pipe) can be too thin. This is due to the electrolya system. What is it and how to get rid of it can be read here.
If such a nuisance has happened to you, then the solution can only be measurements of the radiator or separately a tank.
That it is better to repair the radiator with your own hands or the replacement decide you (I personally adhere to the second option). What do you think about this? Write about this in the comments.