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The Stick
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Well, it has started...
Ran some errands this morning in the Pepper and the Airbag Fault light came on.
After got home faint smell of coolant.
Had to run another quick errand and there was a rattling noise at idle and when I rev it from idle get belt squeal.
Got home and it puked about a gallon of coolant. At least I think it's coolant, it's colorless, but kind of oily feeling between my fingers and faintly smells like coolant.
Temp gauge reads normal.
Topped up the coolant, about 3 quarts and started it up. Rattle reduced significantly. No more coolant leak that I can see.
I'm thinking water pump but who knows with all this new fangled stuff like water cooled alternator. Will have to crawl around under it and see if I can determine were the juice came from after it cools off.
Internet says water pumps are under $200 and takes 6 hours.
Kinda like the Rover, got a good enough deal that I can fix quite a bit before I spent more than it's worth.
Figured it was going to have some kind of issues because most people don't sell or trade a car that is not having any problems.
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Richard aka "The Stick"
06 Cayenne S Titanium Edition
Last edited by RKDinOKC; 08-23-2014 at 08:41 AM..
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