old tech wrote:That’s a very small bit of coolant to be worried about over a few months of time. There is going to be a small bit of evaporation that’s normal because half of your coolant is water. I’d pinch a radiator hose after 5 minutes of running time to make sure your pressure cap is doing its job. In the first picture, that leak, I find usually is caused by the transfer case to transmission large O-ring is not able to completely seal off letting a little bit of Cvt oil to sneak out. How I remedy this is when replacing the transmission I’ll put silicone around the O-ring and then make sure the transfer case is quite tight to the transmission. If yours is just a front wheel drive then it’s probably just the right axle seal at the transmission seeping. On your third picture that little bit of oil staining is where your filter will drain off when changing the oil and filter. On the color of the oil, could it be that mainly her trips are mostly short? If so I think a little more often on the oil changes would be a good idea.
Great info, thanks! Well, she only really drives her car to get groceries and to work. Work is 5x per week, 30 minutes each way in a mix of highway/city driving. Otherwise, we drive my car. I'm not sure if that constitutes short trips, but there you go. I will start changing at 5k!
It's the AWD model, or at least the model that gives you the option to utilize AWD on the dash with a button, so I'm assuming that complicates things. Taking it in today, but I'll let you know the outcome. At least it doesn't sound like a head gasket repair, but I fear that a transmission leak could be bad as well? Not sure.
I did check her CVT oil level and it looked good for the cold range. I didn't run it through the ringer for the hot range per the manual's instruction, but it definitely doesn't seem like enough has leaked out to cause any issues. The CVT seems to be operating normally.
Thanks for taking the time.
