Green liquid leaking from under body...

[paul bamford]

Hey guys, hope everyone had a good holiday. My xmas present form the SHO was coming out to the garage to see a green liquid puddling under the car. The funny part is that my antifreeze is the red type. So it can't be my antifreeze right?

The good news is I still have power train left at 50k and I have premium care warranty. So it is scheduled to go in this weekend for diagnostic by Ford.

In the meantime does anyone have any theories of where to look or what it could be? I did go underneath the car yesterday and checked the hoses that I could see for obvious signs of leaks and did not see anything. It is about a half dollar size like per day.

Side note, there is that removable panel under the engine and I removed that and did not see any wetness or leaks puddling on that removable panel. It is behind this panel that it is puddling on the ground, so closer to mid-car area. So not near the very front/radiator area of the car. Maybe this helps you guys determine what it might be....

Thanks in advance and happy new year!

 

[paul bamford]

Forgot to mention....2015 non-pp

 

[luigisho]

You get this used? Are you sure that it actually is filled with the correct fluid? i.e look and verify it has a certain type and its current volume?

 

[paul bamford]

I did get it used about 10k miles ago. I have not changed the coolant on it though. I got the factory red coolant but have been putting off changing it. The reservoir is filled with red, it does not look like a mixture of red and green. Is it possible to be red in reservoir and green through the system? I thought it circulated what is in the reservoir though?

 

[luigisho]

I don't have this model SHO but my 14 f150 has the orange. that is what you have correct? There are specialty coolants that can come in pink and red in addition to orange so make sure yours is correct. I have no idea what would be green if not old school coolant. Unless there is a green washer fluid?

 

[paul bamford]

washer fluid is blue for sure. The coolant is definitely orange/red in color in the reservoir. So I doubt it is the coolant system. Unless there is some secondary coolant system I am unaware of.

 

[SHOdded]

Refrigerant dye is usually green, but you need UV light to see it ... Any idea of the consistency? Is it watery, oily, or greasy?

 

[paul bamford]

It seems watery but I did not touch it. I will look a bit closer tonight when I get home and let you know any more details.

 

[GHNorth]

Have you ever spilled coolant in your garage in the past? I kept seeing damp coolant stains under my Torino months after I changed out the radiator, but could not find any dripping on the underside of the car. I finally placed a large mirror under the car to see exactly where it was dripping from. A day later the mirror showed no signs of dripping (dry, with no spots/runs evident on the dirty glass), yet UNDER the mirror it was wet. It HAD to have been coming up from below. After several weeks of continually drying up that area it stopped. Strange, but true.

 

[krewat]

You know, gear oil can look green depending on the lighting And if you have LED shop lights, who knows what color response they have...

 

[paul bamford]

I came home from work and checked the spot from the morning and it had evaporated. So I am thinking it is mostly water based substance. It has been rainy and damp here the past week. I am wondering if it wet from the road mixing with something else? If it was truly coolant, do you guys think it would evaporate in < 10 hrs?

 

[SHOdded]

I have had coolant disappear quickly. Depends on temp and humidity of course.

Something picked up off the roads you were driving on seems the most plausible explanation for now.

 

[SHOMON]

I have seen some green windshield washer fluid. Rain-X bug removal washer fluid is green.

 

[SilvererSHO]

Do they put Magnesium Chloride on your roads? I don't know if they use the nasty shit in the winter too but I have a 1/2 mile stretch of dirt road between my house and the blacktop and the asshats here dump the stuff on our roads in the spring so they don't have to waste their precious time using the $300,000 road grader the taxpayers bought them. It sucks moisture from the air and keeps the road surface permanently moist so the fines in the gravel don't blow away. When it rains and I pick up the stuff from the road even though I never go over 20MPH or so it drips off my car in the garage and leaves green looking puddles. It isn't really a bright florescent type of green like anti-freeze though, more like a watered down Mt. Dew color. I didn't know what the **** was going on until I figured it out. I'm not positive it's Magnesium Chloride but that is one of the chemicals they use for this. It could be another chemical too that they put down for dust control.

 

[black92]

Our 2014 leaked refrigerant from the condensor. It was green.

 

[Taurus4573]

Hey guys, hope everyone had a good holiday. My xmas present form the SHO was coming out to the garage to see a green liquid puddling under the car. The funny part is that my antifreeze is the red type. So it can't be my antifreeze right?

The good news is I still have power train left at 50k and I have premium care warranty. So it is scheduled to go in this weekend for diagnostic by Ford.

In the meantime does anyone have any theories of where to look or what it could be? I did go underneath the car yesterday and checked the hoses that I could see for obvious signs of leaks and did not see anything. It is about a half dollar size like per day.

Side note, there is that removable panel under the engine and I removed that and did not see any wetness or leaks puddling on that removable panel. It is behind this panel that it is puddling on the ground, so closer to mid-car area. So not near the very front/radiator area of the car. Maybe this helps you guys determine what it might be....

Thanks in advance and happy new year!

I believe it is refrigerant leaking from you condenser or AC compressor. Nothing major just let dealership confirm which it is.

 

[shoblock]

There are a number of ways antifreeze and oil can mix. I would take the cap off the radiator when the car is cold and see if indeed the coolant in the radiator body itself is green or orange. Ways that coolant can get into the oil are endless. The water pump is actually in the crankcase and can weep water into the oil as well as the potential for porosity in either the block or the cylinder head. Oil and water can be exchanged in the turbos too. The good news is of course if the antifreeze in the radiator is orange then we're likely looking for something in the air conditioning system. Cylinder 6 maybe a completely different second problem and I agree with all that you need to run a compression test