what happened was:
I feared i may have had to pull out earlier, my aux belt decided it liked beig on its own and left the car, of course no tremp guage and now battery light meant i had no idea... until i stopped and i could hear it hissing and my heaters had gone cold
limped it to a fuel station to put water in it, then realising the belt had gone leaving me with no water pump drive. she'd boiled right up and i was left fearing for the headgasket...
left her for an hour and a half whil I walked to my mates work to get a lift to go and get a belt, leaving it to cool down, got a belt, soent ages trying to fit it with just an adjustable spanner and a breaker bar, half an hour later suceeded and shes running fine *PHEW* although im now leaving driving it as much as possible to prevent any firther disasters.LOL
Though ive just put the stat in hot water and its not responding at 89degrees like it should...
The race is on to get a stat!