what I want to know is what others have used-is Micra the best and if so anyone know of best supplier-local m/factor have quoted £75!!so wont be goin there..Will cortina fit?have also heard talk of mk2 golf??I actually have a yugo one fitted but needs replacing due to quantity of coolant on garage floor. Mike.

Ive got one from a 83 (i think) VW polo. Its was around £35 from German, Swedish and French car parts.

There is a thread about it somewhere which has the part number. Read the whole thread though, as the person who was inquiring bought the wrong one at first which i did aswell!

Apparently the polo one is effective for its size, and certainly looks as though it will fit, no that i have tried yet.

My Micra rad was a tenner from the scrappy complete with fan, stat and overflow.

Mine was about the same.

The 2nd one was free... someone had conveniently abandoned a Micra near me and they take about 10 seconds to removed if you've feeling strong!

I'm pretty sure a MK2 Golf wouldn't be any good- the fan cowling is massive and steel and the whole rad is pretty big.

The Micra is nice as you get a fan switch built into the rad aswell as an overflow bottle and a fan attached aswell.

Saying that, the Polo one may have the fan switch for all I know!

HTH,
James

mine is escort mk 2,trim the side flanges and everything lines up

The followign is an uneducated opinion and based on about 20 seconds observation in a scrapp with no tape measure but, have a look at a Volvo 440 next time you're in a yard. The rad I saw was in a 2 litre car and looked small enough to fit a 7 nosecone.

My Micra rad complete with fan, bottle and all pipes cost £15 from the local scrappy. I'd been quoted around £25 from other yards but the one I got I had to remove myself

I have a Polo Rad in my 27, its tight but doesnt quite foul anything, bought a thermo switch for it too, got it from German Swedish French for about £40, only thing is that it needed a bit of craft pipe work to fit it to a pinto, the top hose is on the other side to a cortina rad. It keeps what used to be a hot running car nice and cool now, never gone over the 100deg mark, ..........even stuck in the queue for Stoneleigh!