dimi_108
Leaving Skid Marks
Tonight after a 100km drive through the hills, i let the car rest for a half hour. Irwin and I had noticed a tiny patch of fresh oil, the size of a coin underneath my car.
Upon further inspection, i removed the whole uncer-car difuser and to my surprise, found oil leaking under the car and also a dark black oil sitting on the the outside of one of the turbos.
The car runs well, no white smoke blowing or no loss of performance (not from what i notice, the car still runs very well).
Now, the oil that's sitting on the turbo is dark black. The oil leaking around the other parts of the under car seems to be a transparent brown. It's not ATF as i smelled it and it smells nothing like the ATF - it's actually got no smell at all?
Basically, i'd like to know if oil sitting around the turbo means it's all over. And i'd also like to know what that oil is leaking on the other part. Is that a torque converter seal gone in the transmission? It doesn't smell like ATF though...
I'd really appreciate some help and if anyone here has had the same problem as this. If you have, do let me know what's happened here.
Please see attached pictures.
I've also posted this up on CVR4 to see if anyone over there has experienced the same thing or knows what this is.
Once again, the car drives very well and i have not noticed anything different about its performance since it first landed here 6 weeks ago.
I'm preparing for the worst here.
(In one picture you'll see the dark oil from the turbo on my finger and you'll also see the "transparent brown" oil on my finger as well, just to show the difference)
Oil sitting on the outside of the turbo
Oil from the other oil leak under the car
Upon further inspection, i removed the whole uncer-car difuser and to my surprise, found oil leaking under the car and also a dark black oil sitting on the the outside of one of the turbos.
The car runs well, no white smoke blowing or no loss of performance (not from what i notice, the car still runs very well).
Now, the oil that's sitting on the turbo is dark black. The oil leaking around the other parts of the under car seems to be a transparent brown. It's not ATF as i smelled it and it smells nothing like the ATF - it's actually got no smell at all?
Basically, i'd like to know if oil sitting around the turbo means it's all over. And i'd also like to know what that oil is leaking on the other part. Is that a torque converter seal gone in the transmission? It doesn't smell like ATF though...
I'd really appreciate some help and if anyone here has had the same problem as this. If you have, do let me know what's happened here.
Please see attached pictures.
I've also posted this up on CVR4 to see if anyone over there has experienced the same thing or knows what this is.
Once again, the car drives very well and i have not noticed anything different about its performance since it first landed here 6 weeks ago.
I'm preparing for the worst here.
(In one picture you'll see the dark oil from the turbo on my finger and you'll also see the "transparent brown" oil on my finger as well, just to show the difference)
Oil sitting on the outside of the turbo
Oil from the other oil leak under the car