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Originally Posted by Hugh
They said one of the pipes from it had become brittle and split.
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I had a similar 'near miss' with my motor last year. I'd noticed a persistent coolant drop over a period of time but there were no visible signs of any leaks then one day I noticed a drip of fluid on the drive just under the o/s rear wheel arch. A feel around under the plastic wheel arch lining revealed badly corroded metal cooling system pipework which it turns out was a known issue on that model my car was years out of warranty. Evidently the system had only been leaking significantly under pressure so had I done a long trip before discovering the problem I could well have had a wrecked engine. The cheap solution to my problem was to simply bypass the whole rear section of the heating circuit and leave the rusty pipework in place. Phew!
