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 Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:24 am |
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Noticed this morning when I moved the pug small wet patches on the driveway on drivers side (brand new, woops) had a look under the car and noticed a flat horizontal plate near the steering arm etc was wet with some sort of greasy fluid (not coolant or engine oil) brakes feel fine as does power steering and engine temps are fine, anybody know what it could be and where it could be coming from without me taking it to a garage??
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:28 am |
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color? did you smell it?
transmittion oil smell a bit sulphur
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:33 am |
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| Seabook wrote: |
color? did you smell it?
there's no smell to it at all, its like a light brown colour
transmittion oil smell a bit sulphur |
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:33 am |
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Does it feel oily?
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:35 am |
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Condensation from the Air con condensor?
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:39 am |
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Yeah it does Edward, gotta pick the mrs up in a min so will check to see if it's a constant leak or if it just leaks after a drive
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:44 am |
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You sure its not coolent? Could be coming from the water pump
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:15 am |
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Run your hand along the bottom of the coolant reservoir. The joint between it and the hose at the back of the engine can leak.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:34 am |
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| Edward wrote: |
| Run your hand along the bottom of the coolant reservoir. The joint between it and the hose at the back of the engine can leak. |
Just had another look with my dad and it does seem to be just coolant, think mainly it's due to it being overfilled when the cambelt was changed, ran my hand underneath the coolant tank and its quite dry so it appears to be coming from the cap when the engine is hot
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:58 am |
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Does it taste horrible?
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:18 pm |
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| Edward wrote: |
| Does it taste horrible? |
lol
you taste any unknown fluid on the foor? 
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Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:20 pm |
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[quote="Edward"]Does it taste horrible?[/quo
haven't tasted it but if it leaks again will do, already know coolant tastes like so should tell straight away
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:13 am |
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checked it again and it's still leaking and it's def the coolant as i tasted it  it's not from the water cap so thinking it's from underneath somewhere but there's only 2 pipes coming from it
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Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:49 am |
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Any solution to this as I have just developed a similar problem car leaving wet patch....don't use air con, can see drops from plastic that travels round top of sump but am unable to see any trace apart from that FFS if it's not one thing it's another
cheers
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:23 am |
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Looks like my leak is coming from water pump area but only just been fitted 2months ago WTF !!!!!!!
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