possible leak??

[ARunto]

Was inspecting my car today after my roadtrip this weekend and noticed some green stuff coming from the T above the turbo. Is it a coolant leak?

-Alan

 

[ARunto]

here's another pic from the other side

 

[I EAT Z3]

Yep. Same place mine leaked. It's a s*** design from the strokes at Callaway. They say that the coolant is going through the cords where the hose tee's off the other hose. I had mine replaced and it's better, but still not fixed. Your's looks worse than mine was, so I'd get it looked at. It'll take a redesign on that hose to make it right, so I'm waiting a few months.

 

[ARunto]

well, i'm taking it in tommorrow morning...anyone else having this problem?

 

[boostisgood]

yup, I got a leak there also, the hose is too big for the inlets, take it to the dealer to get fixed. That is what I did.

 

[ARunto]

boostisgood...does yours still leak once you got it replaced? I wonder if there is a TSB for this?

 

[AGR]

Mine leaked in the exact same place. Mazda fixed it 2 weeks ago.

 

[TURBO3WAGON]

yep, yep, yep, you have a leak!

 

[ARunto]

Do they just replace the hose?

 

[AGR]

Do they just replace the hose?

not sure, exactly

 

[Aaron]

mine is doing the same

 

[ARunto]

Got my car back from the dealer. They said it was a clamp that needed to be replaced. They replaced it under warranty. So I'm going to clean up the residual and keep an eye out on it.

 

[Turbo Matty P]

they didn't clean that s*** up for you? Wipe it off with a rag in front of them, throw the rag in the service manager's face and then peel some lillies leaving the lot.

 

[DaKidd]

Hows this for a coolant leak... The day I bought my msp I went in with cash in the hopes that I could just slap down the jack and get my keys in a hurry because there was only about 2 hours of day light left and I wanted to take it for a spin b4 the sun went down. WRONG!!! It took me almost three hours for those knuckle heads finaly got done w/ me... darkness falls, but still happy Because I just got the keys to a beautiful black msp. besides, it was a friday and I was take'n it to the beach sat morning so what the hell... I'll just deal with it. Anyway, so I head on my way for my 35 min drive home, when 25 mins into it the damn thing starts smoking like hell from under the hood. so Im like WTF?! so i pull over, raise the hood, wait for the fog to clear, and see that those GREASE MONKIES (yes i call them G.M. because a real tech would...errr, SHOULD know better) that did the presale inspection forgot to tighten my radiator cap. (piss factor 10!) s*** was all over my beautiful engine, pluss burned the wires to my fog lights (darkness falls again)... well needless to say the beach trip was rescheduled indef, and had to wait 3 F'n days til monday to get my baby fixed... sux look'n at it in ur driveway with the itch to drive it know'n u just payed +20k, and all u get to do is look at it.

On the good side though, they did do a good job detail'n the motor... oh, and i got to drive one of their wonderful ford focuses that everyone loves

OK, b**** session over... I'm all better now

 

[TurboBoostMazda]

Had the same leak here, dealership replace most of the clamps with the screw type clamps... Free of charge of course...

 

[1sty]

When I through on the BEGI kit the factory clams were just not holding the big coolant hoses any more. Replaced them with some adjustable clamps and all is good.

Strangly only the stock clamps work on the small hoses as the adjustable clamps cut the crap out of the hoses.

Just some info!

 

[boostisgood]

Well, It seems I still have a seepage. I think Im gonna take my own hose and clamps with me to the dealer and have them use those. These factory hoses suck.