Hello all,
My w108 has been sailing along smoothly until a problem emerged last night. After sitting at some lights for a while, I had to park the car in a particularly tight spot, which required a fair bit of maneuvering (D, R ... clunk, D, and so on), this raised the temperature above right above the 175. No big deal, but when I got out I noticed a small puddle (maybe 100 ml) of coolant in the driver's side footwell. Oh s***, I thought, maybe I've blown the heater core.
Anyway, about 3 hours later, I had to drive it home, and it went fine, no visible coolant came into the footwell. Next day I took out the carpets, matting, etc., and found not surprisingly that the insulation around the transmission tunnel was damp. Since I got the car, the h/v system hasn't been touched, as I've been trying to ignore it. The fan and directional levers both work fine (although the fan is only on, or off) but both heat levers are broken. After taking off the speaker grill, only there are cables still connected to the levers, the valves (is this right?) they are connected to seem jammed (open I presume).
What's the best thing to do in this situation, will it be costly to fix this leak?
Am I perhaps better off just shutting out the heating system altogether, by connecting the inlet hose straight to the outlet? (I'm in Australia so a heater isn't really necessary).
Any help is appreciated.
