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Lemmy Car Experts, I have a car that is randomly leaking coolant and need advice (Resolved) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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2012 Ford Focus, 155K miles, it is leaking a decent amount of coolant when my partner drives it to work but doesn't even leak a drop if I drive it to work. The mileage is the same but I don't sit in traffic. Could the extra heat from sitting in traffic be opening up a pinhole sized leak in the coolant line?

Edit: Thanks to a tip from the comments when the heat is turned on it leaks. I should be able to bypass that line pretty easy.

Thanks Kolgeirr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Kolgeirr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, didn't know that. Most of my wrenching has been done on older GM trucks and they used a vacuum actuated valve that cut the heater core out entirely by closing the loop under the hood, so coolant still flows by a shortened path. I'm just glad ops problem was found there. Thanks for the info!

[–] drewdarko@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ya, op got it figured out thx to you that’s the important part. I just wanted to add a little clarity for the poor bastard that will come across this post after googling “Ford Focus coolant leak”.