View Single Post
  #10026  
Old 12-21-2018, 10:13 PM
snik snik is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Texas
Posts: 527
snik is on a distinguished road
Quote:
Originally Posted by andrewwynn View Post
The UV will help find the leak. Both times mine and wife's expansion tank leaked it was so subtle at first never saw a drop just magically low on coolant.

The crack on wife's was not on a seam, but on the rounded corner. Absolutely invisible crack until I filled to top and the car was still over 212/100 and boiled created pressure and a 5mm stream poured out of the now barely visible hairline crack.

Put some paper towel around the reservoir and drive until you get full temp you should get enough pressure to make the paper damp and show a little color.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro


Thanks man. I'll do that.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
__________________
Black on cream 04 4.8iS
Black on black 330i ZHP auto
Imola on black 01 M3
Reply With Quote

Sponsored Links