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Developed a leak.. oily substance with green dye..
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Dazz360
 


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Washwipe wrote:
Dazz360 wrote:
Washwipe wrote:
Suspect it could be refrigerant out of the Air Con.

Or Predator and Arnie are near by.


Laughing are your PAS fluids low. “MAC”


Don’t know Dutch, needs further investigation.


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Rear discs, shoes,pads,callipers,flexi hoses, rigid brake line, n/s upper hub carrier bush and rear n/s upper arm (13hrs over 2 days) 
 
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WW88 wrote:
Does anyone think otherwise after seeing pics?


Take pic of your steering fluid is it new ? Or old fluid
 Metal auto sump & fluid change (3 hrs)
LR door puddle projectors (10 mins)
Tinted Bonnet wind deflector (10 mins)
All Intercooler pipes and Tbolts (2hrs)
3 injectors replaced so far (30mins)
Sunroof drain pipes both sides 2.5 hrs)
Rear discs, shoes,pads,callipers,flexi hoses, rigid brake line, n/s upper hub carrier bush and rear n/s upper arm (13hrs over 2 days) 
 
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Will do, just looks brown, hasn’t been replaced since I’ve had the car.
  
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Dazz360
 


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I’d say air con then , nothing else that colour I know too
The green is the dye to help see the leak, place I used put a uv dye so they could use black light to see it
 Metal auto sump & fluid change (3 hrs)
LR door puddle projectors (10 mins)
Tinted Bonnet wind deflector (10 mins)
All Intercooler pipes and Tbolts (2hrs)
3 injectors replaced so far (30mins)
Sunroof drain pipes both sides 2.5 hrs)
Rear discs, shoes,pads,callipers,flexi hoses, rigid brake line, n/s upper hub carrier bush and rear n/s upper arm (13hrs over 2 days) 
 
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Pete K
 


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it is certainly very green!


AC stuff is normally yellow. Put some on a white tissue and see what colour is actually is.

As said, see if the coolant is green or orange
  
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Looks almost a pale highlighter yellow.. pics don’t show it amazingly well..

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Pete K wrote:
it is certainly very green!


AC stuff is normally yellow. Put some on a white tissue and see what colour is actually is.

As said, see if the coolant is green or orange


Coolant is a bright red/pink/orange colour ha. One thing I did note was this stuff doesn’t smell too much, but the steering fluid smelt dreadful! Ha, wasn’t nice up the nose..
  
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A/c still working?
Easy way to check with engine running and watching out for moving bits and your fingers find and touch the alloy a/c pipework, one pipe should be real cold even after a only minute running.
  
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The a/c didn’t work very well no and it doesn’t get cold at all now. Will check on the pip e tomorrow but certainly doesn’t get cold inside at all.[/quote]
  
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probably AC then.


Other option is auto gearbox oil.

WIth that amount of fluid, you should be able to see where it is coming from
  
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That's AC dye. Its the same colour as the leak I had from the H&L pipes on the nearside of Moneypit

https://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/post2040559.html#2040559

If its coming from above the steering gaiter on the nearside it's probably coming from the compressor area

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WW88 wrote:
The a/c didn’t work very well no and it doesn’t get cold at all now. Will check on the pip e tomorrow but certainly doesn’t get cold inside at all.
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Has it got rear a/c?
If so the rear pipes run down the nearside (left) of the car up into the nsf arch then into the engine bay.
  
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It doesn’t have rear AC no. It appears to be coming from higher up in the front left of the engine bay..

I’m fairly certain it is AC but need to find the leak to be sure. Pain in the bum!
  
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Definitely appears to be coming from the compressor, assuming that is the part with a pulley at bottom passenger side of engine..

Sounds expensive ha
  
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It is
  
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