[s-cars] Grrr. Coolant loss!

[Wayne Dohnal]

I has pretty much identical symptoms last year and it was clamps.  The
leakage was never fast enough to leave drops on the floor or in the belly
pan.
One place was one of the hoses near the bottom of the radiator that's almost
impossible to get to.  After driving there would be a drop oozing out of the
hose.  It took a mirror from the top or having the belly pan off to see it.

The other place was several of the hose connections by the side of the
heater box and at the heater valve (under the plastic cover by the wipers).
Several of these connections were slowly oozing coolant.

I still lose about an inch per year out of the tank.  Not enough to motivate
me to look for it.


Wayne Dohnal
1994 S4
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OK guys, I'm trying to figure out where my coolant is
going. It'll drink an inch out of the resirvoir tank
in about 700 miles. So far, I've found no coolant in
the oil, and the spark plugs all look good. The timing
belt and water pump were replaced by me at 120k miles,
car now has 129k. The coolant loss problem started a
couple thousand miles ago. I hope its just some stupid
hose clamp, but there's no puddle or drip under the
car, it only happens while driving. I'm going insane,
anyone have suggestions? The car runs fine, put new
plugs and caps in last night. Pulls like a raped ape
on crack :)

Richard Kurtzer
1993 S4, 129k miles