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I have a 1600D which has lost compression and needs to be rebuilt one day but it goes ok for now except I am losing water from somewhere. There are no signs of a water leak in the engine/pipes or on the floor. I have had it pressure tested and it did not leak anywhere but my refill tank needs topping up everyother day so it must be going somewhere. ANY IDEAS anyone please!!!!

head gasket leak!!!! if its ever had the head gasket replaced it should have been re torqued at about 500 miles , it often does not get done,
we had a customer with a 1.6d that was sufering from the same problems,
when we removed the rocker cover two of the head bolts were loose[ and i mean loose] re torqued the head down just to see if it would stop it from loosing water, totaly cured he was so lucky!!

Cheers thanks for that, I will try it out.

I'm probably going to show my ignorance now!!

Is it the same thing with Petrol engine??

I get the same thing with my 1.9l petrol engine. No sign of leak anywhere but I need to check and top-up the level roughly every 10 days.

This engine was new 2 years ago. 15000 miles done on it since!!

mib wrote: top-up the level roughly every 10 days.

...how much goes in?

It goes down from the maximum line to just above the minimum line is about 15 days.
But I always check it on a weekly basis to make sure it doesn't get too low.