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Going to the shop....

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RustyRed

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Gonna have to take the wife's cruiser into the shop tomorrow but don't tell Mark.

Today at lunch I noticed a spot on the drive. Decent sized spot, no color just looked "wet" and felt oily. It dawned on me that is where the Cruiser was parked last night but figured it could have easily been the maid's car or the car that belongs to the woman that watches the boys for me after school so just sort of made a mental note.

Tonight when wife arrived home I walked out about an hour later and an even larger puddle is under the front of the car in addition to the one left over from last night.

Something is leaking but they have the motor so crammed in there I can't tell from where. In the area of the radiator hose and the power steering reservoir. Looks sort of rusty water colored and smells a little like coolant but feels greazy. Shows a decent leak on the under side of the car on the passenger side but I didn't bother to jack it up so can't see / tell much.

Don't have time to fix it fast enough for DD purposes and can't take the day off so guess I am going to have to haul it to the local shop tomorrow.

On the plus it has about 3k more miles till the warranty runs out so the timing wasn't bad on this one.
 
It must have seen a vintage Mustang....scared the hell out of it!
 
It sees my coupe on a daily basis :bowdown

Drove it to the shop this morning and before I could get in and tell the dude what was going on and hand off the key there was already a fluid trail leading away from the front of the car. Looking at it in the day light my guess is it's coolant.

I had to laugh though. Told the guy at the shop that I hate working on that car because everything is seriously crammed in under the hood. Just to change the battery you have to remove the entire box that houses the air filter unless you feel like pulling the front fender / grill off it. He laughed and said between you and me if we have to do much of anything to those cars we pretty much have to drop the motor out from under the car.

I hate paying labor but with either of my project cars if they sit in the garage for a week or two until I have time to deal with whatever that's fine. With a DD it pretty much needs fixin right now...especially since she is driving my Explorer today. I hope the Explorer makes it home in one piece. Told her if she's going to wreck it make sure to total it so I can use the insurance to buy a new Mustang, LOL!
 
Hairline crack in the radiator is the verdict.

Glad I noticed the puddle and that it's been somewhere between cool and cold out the last couple of days...noticing things like a temp gauge hitting the max is not likely with her driving and a severe overheat could've done some damage.

I hate the car but don't care to replace it (or replace it's motor) without some warning to plan for it financially.....
 
"KBMWRS" said:
So is the warranty in effect for this fix?
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Yep, thankfully....another 3-4K miles and it wouldn't have been so the timing was nice. :thu

I hate paying labor. On this one the labor is $5 less then the cost of a new radiator. Which I can understand since it is a pita to work on anything under the hood on that car but still.
 
"blue65coupe" said:
You have a maid and a nanny?
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Gotta do something with the boys after school. They get off the bus around 3 ish. The woman who watches them was the assistant teacher in one of the boys' room when they were at the Montessori school for years. She works opening shift and gets off from the Montessori around 2 or so.

She costs me a little more than the Children's Courtyard used to cost me but not too much and it's worth every penny. I have to deal with the hassle of the so called "nanny tax" payroll reporting (hey, I'm a small employer) but she also makes sure they get most of their homework done before I get home so we have time to play when I am there. Honestly, if I weren't a CPA I'd probably play catch me if you can re: the nanny tax. However, in my profession getting busted for tax fraud and loosing your ability to practice before the IRS would be much more costly then the few bucks in payroll taxes.

It works out good for her as well. She has a dead beat son that is probably mid 20's that is always milking her for money and she doesn't make much at the Montessori.
 
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