Coolant leaking from something...

[LightningVP]

I went out to my car and noticed a patch of liquid under my car, take a closer look at it's coolant...so I jacked up the car, and it seems to be come from a hole above where the exhaust becomes one pipe...

Anyone know anything about why/where/what it's leaking from?

some pics:

[Nanos]

it looks like your heater core leaking

[88GreenVN]

4 possible places

Heater core

Welsh plug between gearbox and motor

Welsh plug in the back of the head (or is it the front)

Welsh plug side of the motor.

[LightningVP]

4 possible places

Heater core

Welsh plug between gearbox and motor

Welsh plug in the back of the head (or is it the front)

Welsh plug side of the motor.

How would I find out WHICH one it is? and how much roughly to fix each one?

[Nanos]

If you have a look in one of your pics. you can see the coolant leaking from the drain plug from the cabin. going on this i would say more so heater core.

check your carpet inside up behind the dash see if its wet. also you will be able to smell the coolant inside the cabin. also the windscreen would fog up a fair bit in the mornings from th moisture from the cabin

[vn calais manual]

it looks like your heater core leaking

sure does.


unlucky. mate, hapens fairly often, quite a bad leak though i might say, bit of a bitch to change the core out to, can you smell your coolant in the car?.

[LightningVP]

sure does.


unlucky. mate, hapens fairly often, quite a bad leak though i might say, bit of a bitch to change the core out to, can you smell your coolant in the car?.

have only driven the car once in the last few days so didn't notice a smell...

I don't even use my heater how much wold a mech charge to fix?

[Nevyn]

you can buy a new core for around $100....on top of that mechanic will be heaps, as far as I can tell you have to pull the entire heater box out to change it over.

[1991_Vn2nV]

You'd be looking at around 7-8 hours labour. It really doesn't take that long but I doubt they'd charge you any less.

[LightningVP]

Ahhh ok...well I'll have it checked to see if it is that (just in case) and talk around and see how much, or if someone cold help me...

[88GreenVN]

Oh I did not see the second pic it was sooooo wide

Yep heater core by the look of it.

[alien]

I guarantee with 99.9% certaintity that that's a leaking heater core. Same thing happened to my mum's VR Berlina, and i suspect my old VR had a slow leak out of the heater core too, i just didn't get time to fix it before the collision.

As for cost, have fun with that! Or if you want you can do it yourself. Just goto the Hume Library and goto the reference section, there's a few books that should be able to tell you where it is in your car and how to get to it. Then take a 10 minute drive down to pick-a-part and start trying to get to the heater core in one of the VP's there! Then you'll know how to do it for your car!

I would help you with that, but i'm not free to do a job like that for like another 2 months!

[LightningVP]

lol ok...Well yeah would've ****ed up a car at Pick-A-Part to see where it is will get it sorted soon...

[centy]

Mate just to get you outa trouble till you can fix it, join the 2 hoses together that run to the firewall of block them completely.
maybe a bit of 3/4 copper bent into a sharp u will work.

[LightningVP]

Not qite sure what you mean....

[1991_Vn2nV]

Theres two hoses that run to the firewall from the engine bay... One goes into the heater core... The other comes out...

So get a pipe and bend it and join the two hoses, effectively cutting off the heater core where the leak is.

Definitely a very short term fix though! But will get you outta trouble if ya need to drive the car somewhere to be fixed or something.