Tell them they can't possibly know if it's core failure or foreign object blockage over the phone and you want your dealer to look at it. Your dealer should know about the early rad failures and simply say its a core failure. Plenty of threads on here to back you up too
There’s the problem, my Ducati main dealer is saying this is the first radiator failure he’s ever heard of (even though their sister dealer knows fine well the radiator core history). Hence why I’d like to find some official info on it.
All I can do is point to the fact that, when mine collapsed after five years, Ducati (via Ducati Glasgow) comp'd the parts needed.
Load of bollocks. Dealers don't seem to like admitting to known issues and always pull out the 'first I've heard of it' line.
Does anyone know if the side tank on the radiator has a baffle in the centre? Having entrance and exit on same side I presume there’s a baffle so flow in is directed through radiator to opposite tank and then back through radiator to exit?
Somewhat late to the party, but here's my experience based on suggestions within this thread and elsewhere... 2010 MuttleyStrada, suddenly started overheating. One day running at 79 degrees, the next day at 102 and climbing. Managed to limp home with lots of stops to allow it to cool. Investigation showed that the left side rad tank was hot and the right side remained cold. With both the inlet and outlet on the same (left) tank I am assuming that there's an internal baffle halfway up the left tank to ensure that coolant flows across to the right ride, up the right tank and back across to the top left outlet. My theory was that the baffle had corroded and/or broken off so that coolant was entering the boittom of the left tank and passing straight up to the outlet without passing through the finned rad core. I took a punt on a new (pattern part) replacement, fitted it and the problem was immediately resolved.
