Re: Re: Mystery Leak

@OSL282 wrote:

What type of coolant do you have in the car?

5 year OAT is orange in colour.

Also if petrol has softened underseal or waxoyl it can look ‘orangey’ in colour

Thanks for your suggestions chaps. Interestingly, I had topped up the rad slightly before I went out and there is an oily brown deposit around a couple of bolt heads on the cross member under the bottom of the rad close to where the overflow discharges. The radiator has, I was informed, blue ‘classic ‘ antifreeze in it and the colour is more or less that. It has also self levelled back down to where it was in the header tank, so it has presumably done what old cars often do and spat out what it didn’t need. It is all due a back flush and that is on the list.

Den, I don’t think that I have an under bonnet oil can. Is that a usual fitment on a Traction? I found the Slough body number plate, incidentally, but need to spend a little time removing paint, etc. to read it properly.