Technical Drinking the coolant!

[Melanabb]

No, not me but the car is! I've used a whole 1l bottle of Paraflu up since having it less than a year ago. No puddles or leaks as far as I can tell. Any ideas?

 

[Goldback]

Check coolant pipes to Turbo. They are the `horizontal` ones. (Oil feed is vertically into the top and out at the bottom)

If they are leaking the heat will dry off a small leak making it hard to detect.A pink residue may be detectable,which will be dried antifreeze.

Usually tightening the fitting(carefully!) will fix it. Otherwise new copper washers will be required.

 

[Andy Monty]

also the radiator

i seem to recall something about the coolant been UV dye loaded not sure where i read or dreamed it using a UV light should make any leakage stand out like a murder scene from CSI

 

[sludgeguts]

You could also try a pressure test on the expansion tank. Only takes a couple of seconds but a head of pressure on the coolant will show if there's a leak - even if it's pushing it into the pots or peeing out of a joint.

 

[Tom 91]

Most of the time they leak from the thermosat housing, check for a pink stain and coolant on top of the gearbox housing, and the reason you wont see any puddles is that it drips down onto the undertray and there is like sponge sort of thing on undertray that normally absorbs the coolant

 

[Melanabb]

Update: the garage says leaky radiator, waiting for the parts... Thanks for all the replies!

 

[Melanabb]

Update, update: fixed under warranty (it was the leaky radiator). Fine since! Thanks for all the help guys!