How long does it take for coolant to circulate after adding it in order for the car to heat up back to normal?

If you had told us the year make and model of your car we would have a better idea if your motor was cooled clockwise as with older cars or reverse cooled as most new cars and trucks are. If your cooling system is full, the coolant circulates slower in the Winter than the Summer because the thermostat would be normally not open as wide in the Winter to keep the engine and heater-core as it's normal operating temperature.

People fail to realize is when a motor is started when it's stone cold, the water-pump IS circulating coolant through the heater-core even though the thermostat is closed tight. Depending on the size of your engine, direction of coolant flow and the cooling efficiency of the water-jackets makes an enormous difference how fast the heater warms up and when and how far open the thermostat opens.

Can't give you an exact answer, but it takes a while -- at least 10 minutes. Here's why: The coolant in the radiator won't circulate through the engine until the thermostat opens, and in order to do that the coolant has to reach the pre-set temperature (usually around 190 degrees, depending on make and model of the vehicle). That's how they get cars to warm up quickly -- if the coolant circulated through the engine all the time, a car may never get warm in winter...

undemanding - if there is not any leak the place you will locate water or steam popping out then there is largely another go out for the coolant - the exhaust pipe. that is as a results of a blown head gasket or a cracked cylinder head. the reality that the oil is high quality and there is not something on the cap does not advise that is not blown. commonplace value at a BMW broking would be £one thousand ish and at a interior reach self sustaining storage around a million/2 that.

Appx. 15 mins. max depending upon thermostat & climate {& or preheater}.