coolant!

[2kwacks]

just wondering if any of us have needed to top up the coolant bottle on the 2010 onwards..  I've never needed to top my gtr coolant up. but just courious to how much of the fairing panels need to be removed to gain excess to the coolant bottle to enable coolant to be added.

[Lonewolf]

I did this on the older GTR but I've still never taken the fairing off on the new one. Probably save that little bit of fun for the winter months when I'm bored.

[2kwacks]

not removed any panels myself yet, but will be renewing the brake and clutch fluid soon. to change the clutch fluid it's looks like only the left side bottom fairing belly panel needs to be removed to gain access to the clutch slave cylinder. not sure if the coolant bottle could be accessed from this point by maybe using a squeezy bottel and long tube. if the middle fairing needed to be removed as well this could prove a right bastard if you where out and about and noticed your coolant was low!

[100milesaway]

I had my side panel off a few weeks ago, It was relatively pain free. First you have to take the glove!!! box out, then attack the side panel. The good news is that there are pictures, and an explanation of where to push or where to pull in the owners manual in the section relating to the Air cleaner pages 207 to 213. The only bit I struggled with was putting it back together, I found that you need to put the fairing louvre fingers in behind the front bowed panel that has been left in situ first, then the rest is pretty easy. When the rear middle fairing is removed you have easy access to the overflow tank, so as to check the water level, for the record mine did need a slight top up. My advice would be to allow lots of time so you can just work through things, and most of all dont rush.

[Martin#30]

Did it on my 2010 recently, just undo the side panel to fual tank cover join and there is enough room to pull the panel back and access the coolant bottle.

I would say though that I only did this because I noticed that it appeared to be empty. Started to top it up with the correct distilled water and anti-freeze mix, and it took almost nothing before overflowing out the top. Still looks empty. It is almost as if the reservoir is a very opaque material, and you cannot actually see the level.

I am confident that it is full, I just cannot see the level. Poor design.

Martin.

[2kwacks]

Did it on my 2010 recently, just undo the side panel to fual tank cover join and there is enough room to pull the panel back and access the coolant bottle.

I would say though that I only did this because I noticed that it appeared to be empty. Started to top it up with the correct distilled water and anti-freeze mix, and it took almost nothing before overflowing out the top. Still looks empty. It is almost as if the reservoir is a very opaque material, and you cannot actually see the level.

I am confident that it is full, I just cannot see the level. Poor design.

Martin.

martin.. I've no problem whats so ever seeing the level in the reservoir bottle, it's as plain as day the coolant colour is green and it can very easily be seen between the min and max lines. I just have a quick glance, and at the same time shake the handle bars you can see the coolant moving if you can't see the coolant through the side fairing it's either full to the top or empty. as you can see by this photo I've just taken from looking through the fairing fins at the coolant bottle, "bike on main stand" the level can plainly be seen!

[2kwacks]

Did it on my 2010 recently, just undo the side panel to fual tank cover join and there is enough room to pull the panel back and access the coolant bottle.

I would say though that I only did this because I noticed that it appeared to be empty. Started to top it up with the correct distilled water and anti-freeze mix, and it took almost nothing before overflowing out the top. Still looks empty. It is almost as if the reservoir is a very opaque material, and you cannot actually see the level.

I am confident that it is full, I just cannot see the level. Poor design.

Martin.

that's handy to know up to now I've not needed to top up the reservoir bottle, my level is in middel of the min and max marks on the reservoir bottle as on the main stand, the level as not change since I first collected the bike from new! but it's nice to know you don't need to remove the lower and middel left fairings panels to gain access to the reservoir bottle to top up! did you need to remove the glove box or the tank cover? it would be reassuring to know if you where out and the coolant became low it would just be a case of loosening the middel fairing panel just enough to top up... ho!

[Rusty]

Dave ... has a spider crawled across your picture ???

[Martin#30]

Dave.

You have to remove the black plastic cover on the tank, the one that is held on by three bolts and I think used to be the glovebox on earliewr bikes. The top bolts for the side fairing are underneath it. You will still need a funnel with a long spout though, so I really don't think roadside topping up is very easy. In an emergency, aim a two litre bottle of Evian in the general direction and hope some finds its way in 

Thanks for the picture. I definately cannot see the coolant level in mine. Maybe the dealer has used new bio-degradable polar-bear hugging invisible anti-freeze within the last 2 years and 29k miles, perhaps my sponge dodging antics don't help.

Martin.

[2kwacks]

Dave ... has a spider crawled across your picture ???

I could never write straight at school and still can't

[Debs]

Has anyone ever tried Engine Ice Coolant?

I understand that its mostly used in racing but Im thinking of using it on baby..

Any ideas guys?

http://www.engineice.com/

[pistole]

Has anyone ever tried Engine Ice Coolant?

I understand that its mostly used in racing but Im thinking of using it on baby..

Any ideas guys?

http://www.engineice.com/

- some of the USA fellas who ride their Concours 1400 and the ZX14R swear by Ice.

- but they have some extreme temps there which you may not experience in the UK.

.

[scotty597]

I use engine ice in my Honda XR650R, it frequently overheated in slow moving traffic, it has no fan as its a basic dirt bike. Engine Ice keeps it running much cooler and it only over heats now if standing running for about 3 times longer than before. It works, not sure you need it in the GTR. Maybe if you stayed in the med countries or were always in slow traffic it would help, normal UK riding I dont think you need it.

[2kwacks]

Has anyone ever tried Engine Ice Coolant?

I understand that its mostly used in racing but Im thinking of using it on baby..

Any ideas guys?

http://www.engineice.com/

your gtr should not need engine ice coolant over here even in 38 to 40 degrees when I was in italy and monti carlo last month in heavy traffic my gtr did not overheat. the fans were cutting on and off every few minutes and was between 4 and 5 bars when on motorway it was on 3 bars, unless you get the "over heating" message/warning "high temp"on your display your bike is not over heating

[Debs]

your gtr should not need engine ice coolant over here even in 38 to 40 degrees when I was in italy and monti carlo last month in heavy traffic my gtr did not overheat. the fans were cutting on and off every few minutes and was between 4 and 5 bars when on motorway it was on 3 bars, unless you get the "over heating" message/warning "high temp"on your display your bike is not over heating

Ok...  It was only a thought to keep the temp down..