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Top off the recovery bottle to the max level not minimum, it has marks. The next time check it cold and see if the level has dropped. I think you have a air pocket in the engine. Check it daily (the recovery bottle), but fill the radiator and the bottle when it is cold. You want to keep doing this until the level in the recovery bottle stays the same and the radiator is absolutely full when you removed the cap with the engine cold.
NEVER REMOVE THE CAP HOT OR YOU COULD BE SCARRED FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!
I would check it before your drive to work and after you get off work. If you keep the radiator absolutely full COLD, then your overheating should stop.
If you can keep the radiator absolutely full, the level in the recovery bottle will rise when the engine gets hot, and drop as it cools off. If the rad is full and the recovery bottle level stays the same when the engine is cold, you're good. If the level in the radiator stays full but the level in the recovery bottle keeps dropping over a few days, you have a leak somewhere.
I have seen people ignore this advice and fry an engine in a $10k car, that was not even paid for and now they need to spend another 5k to fix it and they were upside down before they fried the engine.
That's why I wont touch a repo, I'd rather buy it totalled.
Let me know what happens.
regards
Mech
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