2014 208 GTi, 70 000km. Careful lady driver. Cough.
During routine check in the garage at home found the coolant expansion bottle empty.
Rolled the car back out and there was an established puddle, light brown watery liquid that tasted effing awful.
Car has not been driven in 5 days, so it is leaking out static.
Jacked it had a look, there was a steady drip, yes just like with gonorrhoea. It was coming off the rounded lower end of what I think would be the cam chain tensioner, although detectable all along the sub-frame.
That it is not to say that the tensioner is involved, just in the path of the drip.
Totally unfamiliar with the plumbing on these. Had the same on the Mi16 and it was that infernal plastic 4-hose distributor on the back of the block. Is this the same setup?
I have a container of green coolant, it is ethylene glycol like the original. If the car has to be driven a short distance I would put that in, although logic says that if it drips from cold, it would come p!ssing out when warm.
There were no alerts or red lights on the dash when last driven, my wife would have told me, I am sure. Cough.
Impeccable timing, as usual. Not. Any hints tips suggestions welcome, including spending some of the current Republic of Southern Northern Beaches lockdown taking off all the plastic dangly bits to try and get a look at the back of the engine block.
During routine check in the garage at home found the coolant expansion bottle empty.
Rolled the car back out and there was an established puddle, light brown watery liquid that tasted effing awful.
Car has not been driven in 5 days, so it is leaking out static.
Jacked it had a look, there was a steady drip, yes just like with gonorrhoea. It was coming off the rounded lower end of what I think would be the cam chain tensioner, although detectable all along the sub-frame.
That it is not to say that the tensioner is involved, just in the path of the drip.
Totally unfamiliar with the plumbing on these. Had the same on the Mi16 and it was that infernal plastic 4-hose distributor on the back of the block. Is this the same setup?
I have a container of green coolant, it is ethylene glycol like the original. If the car has to be driven a short distance I would put that in, although logic says that if it drips from cold, it would come p!ssing out when warm.
There were no alerts or red lights on the dash when last driven, my wife would have told me, I am sure. Cough.
Impeccable timing, as usual. Not. Any hints tips suggestions welcome, including spending some of the current Republic of Southern Northern Beaches lockdown taking off all the plastic dangly bits to try and get a look at the back of the engine block.
