Losing coolant

[muttley 0]

Hi all

I've been getting a problem that has been driving me crazy.

Iseem to lose around a litre of coolant every night, during the day it is fine it doesnt leave any patches at all but every morning a wake up to this (obviously i've move the car back to take it)

the main puddle seems to be coming from my oil filter :S

has anyone got any ideas, i've checked all the pipework and cant find anything but it does seem to be coming from the front of the engine somewhere, i'm baffled

[VR6Nat 9]

best bet is to dry it all off and put cardboard underneath, give it half hour then have a look, then you will see exactly where its dripped from and too... then follow it back and you should find the problem... is it ok when you drive it?? no smoke?? Is your heating working?? Water temp showing as normal on the dash??

[muttley 0]

best bet is to dry it all off and put cardboard underneath' date=' give it half hour then have a look, then you will see exactly where its dripped from and too... then follow it back and you should find the problem... is it ok when you drive it?? no smoke?? Is your heating working?? Water temp showing as normal on the dash??

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I tried that and had no drips all day long, right up till 11pm ish ( bed time ) then when i got outsde very huge puddle on the cardboard. its as if a pixie comes along in the middle of the night and turns the tap on.

I dont think i'm getting any smoke it seems pretty clear apart from the obvious exhaust smoke you get on a cold day.

Heating is working fine, better than it has been for a while to be honest.

water temp is just under 70 on normal driving conditions. heats up as normal in traffic and fan kicks in fine

[thegoth 5]

looks like it could the pipes which feed the oil cooler or the crack pipe

[dman78 1]

had the same problem and it was the t-joint on the crack pipe that was cracked,crack pipe runs from the water pump to the thermo housing,hope this helps

[Ben Seabrook 4]

my money would either be on the crack pipe or the thermostat housing mate

[Rikki 2]

Goth could be right....quite common to go there! as is crack pipe

[Gooseman 0]

hi mate from south africa here definatly ure water distribution pipe plastic one under intake manifold while changing it also do the 2 watwrpypes going to and from oil cooler

[muttley 0]

hi mate from south africa here definatly ure water distribution pipe plastic one under intake manifold while changing it also do the 2 watwrpypes going to and from oil cooler

Ok il get them done, cheers