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Recently I had the coolant exchanged. Simple stuff except that after that I have to add almost a quart of coolant every 50km. it used to be 25 but it turend out that I have had tightened the hose clamp at the bottom rad too much so the hose got deformed and leaked. It still looses coolant somwhere and if it is any help there is a steam comming under the bonnet right above right headlight. Not much but visible. I will look in to it further this weekend but if any of you had a similar experience can you please share it with me?

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Originally posted by airman1:
Recently I had the coolant exchanged. Simple stuff except that after that I have to add almost a quart of coolant every 50km. it used to be 25 but it turend out that I have had tightened the hose clamp at the bottom rad too much so the hose got deformed and leaked. It still looses coolant somwhere and if it is any help there is a steam comming under the bonnet right above right headlight. Not much but visible. I will look in to it further this weekend but if any of you had a similar experience can you please share it with me?

Tahnk you,




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Look for a slightly greasy looking spot on a hose connection in that area. If the coolant is leaking while it's hot & under pressure it'll "steam clean" whatever is around it. The area where the hose is leaking will look almost shiny.


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