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Old 06-28-2016, 03:45 PM   #1
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Smoke and fluid from right rear :(



Any idea what this might be? No warning/error lights go off on the dash and quite a bit of smoke was coming out of the right side after a leisurely cruise. The fluid is yellowish green. Once I turned the car off the fluid dump stopped pretty quickly and there is still coolant left in the rear tank.

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The right rear above the wheel is the location of the coolant overflow. You likely had an air bubble in the system. Was the coolant temperature indicator past the 0 of the 180 mark?
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The right rear above the wheel is the location of the coolant overflow. You likely had an air bubble in the system. Was the coolant temperature indicator past the 0 of the 180 mark?
I honestly was not paying attention I had the roof down listening to some sweet tunes with the birds chirping in the background. I pulled into my driveway turned the car off, looked over my right shoulder and noticed white smoke coming out of the right vent. I hopped out and walked around to the back and saw the dump.
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Hopefuuly it's nothing more than a bad coolant cap. Same thing happened to me.
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