ROG100

I have two customer cars here in DFW with fairly new Devek rads.
New as in a couple of years old at the most.
The one that I looked at yesterday was leaking from the bottom front about 4" in from the passenger side.
As the condenser protects that part of the rad I cannot see "FOD" being the cause.
Are they repairable?

Choices are new Aluminium from 928Int. Jury is still out on life expectancy though the source is 110% trusted.

New Behr rad at $1000.

Used with the obvious pitfalls.

Anybody have any better solutions, ideas, fixs.

Thanks,
Roger

SeanR

count mine in that list too.

Giovanni

So mine will eventually leak too, sucks.

Rog, you can get a used one from 928Intl with a 1 yr warranty.

johnf95111

I've had mine in for 6 years. No issues.

Cheers,

cfc928gt

Get ready, my DEVEK radiator went after 6 years and 19,000 miles.

perrys4

WOW, very sad. Did you contact them and did they offer any exchange or anything?

ROG100

Gio,
$650 used with a 12 month warranty.
I would recommend a new one for the extra $.
Roger

Garth S

I have had $$$ AC aluminium condensers saved by heliarc welding repair - at many times the working pressure of a rad: perhaps talk to the area AC shops for a lead ....

SeanR

Rog,

Jim was talking about who to rebuild them, and I think when mine gets bad enough I'm going to go with his suggestions. One would think that for the $$ that these alum ones go for, that the quality would be much better. Most of the stock ones lasted a very long time and I would assume that these would last much longer. Could it be that there is a common fault among these rads that has been improved recently?

Kinda sucks.

Randy V

IIRC - the 'Achilles Heel' of the DEVEK rad is that the end tanks are glued on with an epoxy compound.

Vilhuer

Isn't problem clued on end tanks? 928 Intl version has welded.

SeanR

Mine appears to be welded.

ColinB

Roger
My radiator lwas leaking when I first bought the car and it was replaced with a 'pirate' one made up by a local shop. It's copper, but visually identical to the original (except for the decals which were thrown away with the old one!) It runs a little cooler than the original and has given me no trouble whatsoever in 7 years. Cheap too. You might have such a place near you. There are heaps of them here.

Colin. 89GT

ROG100

The two I have seen are welded end caps.

Ed Hughes

Roger, I'm sure a Radiator shop would be able to repair these....that should be one of the advantages of these. Or, a quality welding shop, but they prolly wouldn't be able to test like a rad shop could.