Hello everyone, It's with regrets that I come here to sell my quick brick. My wife has driven it since early 2017, and we are the second owners. It has 144,6XX on the odo, and the timing belt was replaced around 70K, then again by me at 125K or so. She still GIVES. I'm always shocked by how much get...

The armrest/cup holder for the back seat has been open for a long time, and now I can't close it. It moves less than half way up before some mechanism solidly stops it from closing further. I have a feeling there's some simple method I've overlooked, but I can't for the life of me figure it out. Is ...

The bastards indeed have a coolant pipe ( to heat :-) the PCV line. I forgot about that Worth checking. It's two banjo bolts , one hard to get to under the intake manifold , left side of engine (towards front of car) and one on back of block. If that coolant pipe let go into the PCV somehow, it wou...

Does anyone know the exact model of turbocharger on the 99 T5 2.3? I would like to look at a diagram if I can find one. [EDIT] Sorry, nevermind. It's the TD04 16t. I will attempt a pressure test on the coolant system. I would, however, still be interested to know if it is possible for coolant to lea...

My son's 850 transmission was ruined because coolant got into his transmission through the radiator. A turbo radiator has oil, coolant and transmission fluid going through it...any one of these breaches and you have problems. How old is your radiator? That would be my guess if the other suggestions...

rspi wrote: ↑10 Sep 2017, 16:07 Turbo but it would smoke like crazy.

Is it certain that the turbo would smoke if it were the location of the leak?

wizechatmgr wrote: ↑10 Sep 2017, 16:38 Crack in the head may still pass a leakdown test if it is beyond the combustion chamber and not through it.

Is that really possible though? Wouldn't any crack be caused by compression and thus intersect a cylinder?

I open the hood to find the coolant reservoir empty. I check the oil and find that the level is much too high and the color is quite wrong. My coolant is draining into the oil somewhere. I performed a cylinder leakdown test and have ruled out the head gasket. I have replaced the oil cooler, and yet ...

My friend said it was grayish and smelled super rich.

I noticed some smoke from the exhaust while under full boost. It happens suddenly as the engine nears the redline, at around 5500 rpm. A friend followed me to get a look at it and he noted that it smelled like unburnt fuel. I have no warning lights and no codes. What could this be? The PCV is good (...