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Originally Posted by NL03Scooby
Did you clean all the mating surfaces you attached your new plumbing too? I wonder if it dragged through some dislodged crud from where your new pipes were put on?
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Yep, cleaned up everything reasonably well.
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Originally Posted by SlimeyLimey
...im no mechanic but arent these suppose to have the red/pink coolant? Thats what i was told anyway and was told not to use the blue stuff. As i said though im no mechanic by any means haha
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Not sure, I was recommended the blue Motul coolant from Alyn @ AS Performance. This stuff:
https://www.motul.com/za/en/products...%5Brange%5D=25
Not sure that you can rely on the colour 100% as its just a dye at the end of the day?
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Originally Posted by urabusMY94
When I replaced my radiator, I also needed to top up the header tank after initial drives. 
Let it cool down, see if it's still there and if so, get a sample out to have a better look.
If you don't have a syringe, then a cooking baster will do just as well....
Ideally, get as much of it out as possible so remaining coolant is clean, top it up, and check if more appears after your next drive.
If it disappeared when coolant got hot, then suggests some form of surfactant/detergent which as you've already speculated has a number of potential sources.
You can confirm this by heating up your sample BTW. If it doesn't dissolve, then could use a magnet to check if it's metallic?
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Some good ideas there... I was expected to top up the header tank after initial drives but wasn't expecting to see the funny stuff floating on the top
It wasn't properly cooled down last night to check and been at work all day so will pop out to the garage this evening and see if its reappeared. If so, i'll try and get some out for closer inspection....
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Originally Posted by BlueBugEye
Probably just gunk from the system, mine looked like that after a new engine, water pump, modine etc.
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Cool, thanks mate
Like i said, i'm (hopefully) worrying about nothing but as I did the work on the car i'm paying more attention to it than normal!