Sabas

iTrader: (22)

My car has a leak under the manifold, you can see the pink anti- freeze, is it coming from a bolt or something?






The car isn't losing much water at the moment, thanks

ShotgunUK

iTrader: (9)

Where are you located mate?

Splitpin

Sabas, if it's pooling up there, the likeliest culprits will be one of those black transfer pipes running over the block rusting through, or one of the joints between them leaking, or possibly a compromised head gasket. If you examine the area closely you should be able to pinpoint it.

When you say it isn't losing "much" water, it doesn't take much loss to seriously compromise the efficiency of the cooling situation, so the sooner you address this the better.

Sabas

iTrader: (22)

Basingstoke, Splitpin, what are the other symptoms of head gasket failure, isn't there White smoke out of the exhaust? The problem I have is a work during the day mon- fri, I will have a look at the pipes, but it looks like it is seeping out from the place in the picture

maydew

iTrader: (9)

alloy crossover pipe,theres a rubber seal in there if remember right,only way is to remove inlet for proper access and use some gasket sealer on the face of the alloy crosser pipe,or could be rubber pipe both might only be leaking when hot/hot.

very unlikly for headgasket to blow water outwards like that on these engines always pressurises the cooling system onboost then blows coolent out of the expansion bottle.

DO NOT PUT RAD WELD IN FOR A QUICK FIX

Splitpin

If the gasket has failed, it depends how it has failed as to what symptoms you get. If you get one of the inner seals going, yes you can get pollution of the coolant or smoke out the pipe. However if the outer perimeter of the gasket has gone (or corrosion has compromised it from the outside), you'll get seepage out of the engine without anything untoward on the cylinder side.

I would rule out the black cross pipes first as if one of those (or the joints) is the culprit it'll be a far cheaper and quicker fix than the HG.

Can't see exactly where "the place" is is from those pics - take a close peek at, or run a tissue along those pipes and see if they get wet, see what that tells you.

Sabas

iTrader: (22)

Okay, will have a look in the daytime, thanks for all the help

ShotgunUK

iTrader: (9)

I was gonna say pop round and I'll show you but I'm in Essex. Basically, as someone else in here has said, likely cause is the little rubber grommets which sit at the base of the coolant transfer pipes. Only way to get to these is intake manifold off unfortunately.

Obviously it could also be a host of other things but that's what it was on my V2 (70kmiles). If I drove sensible it was fine but giving it full beans resulted in what you seem to be getting.

jonny_693

iTrader: (5)

Are you sure, because that looks an awfull lot like pink threadlock.

maydew

iTrader: (9)

halfords advanced antifreeze is pink in colour and dries just like that