This is just in case someone else is getting drips from under the car, and
who wants to avoid paying huge dollars to "diagnose" the problem.

I had drips, thought they were at first oil, but then checked carefully
under the hood and traced the dried pink splatters over to

(and I wish I knew the terms here, sorry)

pipe that was flanged into another pipe. There are two bolts flanging them
together and one was loose.

Looking down at the engine compartment from the headlights, dividing the
compartment into the following regions

a b c
d e f
g h i

(b would be just below the battery). The leak was near the middle of the
the triangle a-b-e

Tightened the bolt, and it was fixed.

Hope this helps someone!

Thomas

 

"Thomas G. Marshall" <tgm2tothe10thpower@hotmail.replaceTextWithNumber. com>
wrote in message news:1BYbb.7036$7W4.150@nwrdny03.gnilink.net...
>
> This is just in case someone else is getting drips from under the car, and
> who wants to avoid paying huge dollars to "diagnose" the problem.
>
> I had drips, thought they were at first oil, but then checked carefully
> under the hood and traced the dried pink splatters over to
>
> (and I wish I knew the terms here, sorry)
>
> pipe that was flanged into another pipe. There are two bolts flanging
them
> together and one was loose.
>
> Looking down at the engine compartment from the headlights, dividing the
> compartment into the following regions
>
> a b c
> d e f
> g h i
>
> (b would be just below the battery). The leak was near the middle of the
> the triangle a-b-e
>
> Tightened the bolt, and it was fixed.
>
> Hope this helps someone!
>
> Thomas
>
>


I just had loads of cooling issues as i blew out a connector that goes into
the engine, and a pipe connects to it from the header tank.

Simple fix was to put it back in as it had corroded and self tap a screw
through the housing and use chemical metal to seal the problem, otherwise
you had to take the front off.

Then when refilled blew another hole in a rusty pipe that runs along the
underneath of the car, this had rusted out and I stuck a screwdriver into
it, the part is piece that runs from the header tank again to the oil cooler
then to the rest of the system, part was £21.00 but require the front to be
taken off again to fit, so we cut one of the brackets off and rewelded it
back on to slide it through

I think it must be a common fault with A4's to leak in those places.

Ron

A4 12v 2.6 quattro

 

"Thomas G. Marshall" <tgm2tothe10thpower@hotmail.replaceTextWithNumber. com>
wrote...
>
> This is just in case someone else is getting drips from [...]
> Tightened the bolt, and it was fixed.
>
> Hope this helps someone!

Thank you, Thomas. I wish there were more of postings like yours.
I am sure somebody will find it very helpful.

Victor

 

Victor Bazarov <v.Abazarov@attAbi.com> horrified us with:

> "Thomas G. Marshall"
> <tgm2tothe10thpower@hotmail.replaceTextWithNumber. com> wrote...
>>
>> This is just in case someone else is getting drips from [...]
>> Tightened the bolt, and it was fixed.
>>
>> Hope this helps someone!
>
> Thank you, Thomas. I wish there were more of postings like yours.
> I am sure somebody will find it very helpful.
>
> Victor

Sure!

For the record, I forgot to mention that it was a 2k a4, 1.8