The plastic covers a styrofoam core. I wouldn't worry if the problem was cosmetic, but the broken part is one piece with the resevoir the bottle sits over, and eventually the plastic will crack and leak into the cooling mechanism and out on the floor. And if I can fix it cheaper than an $80-150 replacement, I'm willing.
The collar is only there to keep the bottle at the correct height in relation to the water in the cooler. The principle is that when the vacuum inside the bottle is not being release by the water clearing the opening no more water will run out. To understand what I mean fill up a bottle ( any old bottle) right to the top. Fill up the sink and with you finger over the top of the bottle place the bottle upside down in the water. Take you finger from the hole and it will glug once maybe twice then no more water will run out until you lift the bottle out of the sink water. To stop more running out simply put the neck of the bottle bac in the sink. It is the same with you water cooler bottle. So all you need to do now is to to cover the foam with a piece of vinyle and it will be fixed.
SOURCE: Water boiling out the bottle as the car overheat's
it is without doubt blown head gaskit,or cracked block---a quicktest at radiator centre will confirm this only takes a couple of minutes
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