Coolant Leak

CUBuff · 03-16-2005, 09:19 PM

First off some background info on my car its a 1996 A4 2.8 with 100,000 miles

What happened, yesterday I got an oil change at grease monkey and when I got home about 30 seconds after I turned off my car it started to smoke, when I checked all my fluids everything was OK so I just figured they tried to top off my coolant or something, no big deal.

Today, after turning my car off from a 20 min. drive the same thing happened only this time all my coolant or at least everything in the reservoir drained out. So now I have to either get my car towed, try and fill it up and make it to a garage or pray its some thing easy like a hose that I could fix.

So has anyone else had this problem or know what it might be(did grease monkey do it) and how best to fix it, please let me know. The last thing I need right now is another 1k bill from Audi.

Laseron · 03-17-2005, 09:11 AM

You may want to take a close look at the fittings / lines going to the bottom of the radiator. Could have been damaged by the Monkey.

cheesemax · 03-17-2005, 03:40 PM

Unless you've already had it changed, you may want to check the water pump.
Good luck.

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03-16-2005, 09:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
CUBuff Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1 Gallery: (0)	First off some background info on my car its a 1996 A4 2.8 with 100,000 miles What happened, yesterday I got an oil change at grease monkey and when I got home about 30 seconds after I turned off my car it started to smoke, when I checked all my fluids everything was OK so I just figured they tried to top off my coolant or something, no big deal. Today, after turning my car off from a 20 min. drive the same thing happened only this time all my coolant or at least everything in the reservoir drained out. So now I have to either get my car towed, try and fill it up and make it to a garage or pray its some thing easy like a hose that I could fix. So has anyone else had this problem or know what it might be(did grease monkey do it) and how best to fix it, please let me know. The last thing I need right now is another 1k bill from Audi.

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03-17-2005, 09:11 AM	#2 (permalink)
Laseron Senior Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 256 Gallery: (0)	You may want to take a close look at the fittings / lines going to the bottom of the radiator. Could have been damaged by the Monkey.

03-17-2005, 03:40 PM	#3 (permalink)
cheesemax Senior Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 186 Gallery: (0)	Unless you've already had it changed, you may want to check the water pump. Good luck.

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