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Heisman Winner [137983]
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Car Qwershin
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:41 AM
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What's this?
Car is too low to easily see where it's coming from. Yellow(ish) would immediately make me think coolant, but it doesn't smell like coolant (doesn't smell like much at all) and it's kinda viscous. Also, the rainbow would indicate that whatever it is is oil-based, so that also kinda eliminates coolant as the culprit. What is it?
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Oculus Spirit [97746]
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Looks like tailpipe smegma.
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:42 AM
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Just clean the lint trap behind your glove box and it should stop.
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Serious answer. If it's a white tint like that it's oil mixing with antifreeze***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:04 AM
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CU Medallion [60043]
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Could be condensed oil vapor
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:43 AM
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look under the oil cap and see if you see if there too. This happens a lot on boats and you would see it in the bilge area.
Just a guess while I am bored and waiting on the doc to touch my bawls.
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Oculus Spirit [85339]
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Car seamen?***
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:44 AM
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That, sir, is a driveway in need of a good cleaning.
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:45 AM
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Not sure what spots you are asking about - too many to choose from.
Disclaimer, I could not help you anyway. LOL.
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Kinda looks like bile.
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:46 AM
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Maybe you have CARVID?
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How's it taste?***
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:46 AM
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That sir is concrete***
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:47 AM
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Oculus Spirit [85339]
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Ungaraged concrete at that***
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:50 AM
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Re: Ungaraged concrete at that***
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:56 AM
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Serious answer. If it's a white tint like that it's oil mixing with antifreeze***
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:48 AM
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Oculus Spirit [75725]
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For once, I'll think you are correct, just due to your
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:56 AM
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experience in POS vehicles that leak ####.
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I'm saving a fortune in oil changes.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:43 AM
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Your car is lactating.
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:57 AM
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Did you recently have a baby car?
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a leaf?***
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Jan 26, 2024, 8:58 AM
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Have you noticed any dragons hanging around the neighborhood?
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:07 AM
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This is extremely disturbing***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:08 AM
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Sorry, I just noticed...details in that gif I didn't wish to see.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:11 AM
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OH GOD, IT GETS WORSE.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:13 AM
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He's "dragon"
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:16 AM
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DEEZ NUTZ on the street!
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You'd think they'd spark from the friction.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:23 AM
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Whatever you do, don't look inside the car. Don't.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:35 AM
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[FIFY] DOES THE DRAGON NOT KNOW THAT'S A NO PORKING ZONE ?***
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Jan 26, 2024, 10:15 AM
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Important question
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:09 AM
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What part of the car sits over that spot? Front? Middle? Rear?
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Front, something from under the hood, pretty certainly.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:12 AM
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I think FBC might be closest to the truth.
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:25 AM
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That’s a far broader slick than basic pure oil leaks would have made, and the color is wrong for almost other type of fluid. Required something more viscous than oil to spread that far and that evenly. Also I see older oil spots, so you have or have had an oil leak already.
So you could have a bad head gasket that is combining oil with coolant, and what was just an oil leak is now dropping a thinner oily mixture that spreads like that. If that mixture leaks externally out of the engine. It’s going to look like the Exxon Valdez parked in your driveway, minus the dark brown color.
One wild card. That color (or lack of it) is perfect for brake fluid. Also it is corrosive and would pit the driveway like that where it fell. Check the brake fluid reservoir. If it’s pretty low, there’s your culprit.
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Grazie.
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:41 AM
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The other fun little variable is that the cars get shuffled around the driveway, so I'm not even positive which one it is.
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Giant piece of cardboard time.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:47 AM
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Re: Giant piece of cardboard time.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 10:00 AM
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That's not gonna stop a determined dragon.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 10:07 AM
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Oculus Spirit [81078]
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Looks like acid etched teh concrete.
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:15 AM
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So either your battery is leaking, or since its been humid AF for the last month, water/humidity is probably blowing out of the tailpipe after it mixes with whatever noxious concoction of gases, semi burnt gasoline, aerosolized oxidized iron bits, and used blow-by oil that your engine is belching out of your catalytic converter before it comes up to temperature, all peter-sneezing on your driveway when you first start the car.
I mean...that's what it looks like to me.
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Re: Car Qwershin
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:30 AM
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Check your oil and see if it's the same. If so, probably head gasket allowing oil and coolant to mix.
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Cat licking up antifreeze and immediately vomiting.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 9:39 AM
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Hay 19, you figger anything out?
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Jan 26, 2024, 12:36 PM
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FWIW I have an old suburban that leaks oil. It's a known issue and I have a yuge oil spot on me driveway to prove it.
I moved her today, and BLAMMO. The oil spot had turned yeller, eerily similar looking to your yeller spots but think a spot too big to wrap your arms around.
I threw some water from a pitcher on it, and the yeller slid off and moved along.
I'm actually wondering if it's like pollen or something that just got trappped there after all the rain.
Could be a terrible theory though.
19B®
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Man that is a stellar theory
Jan 27, 2024, 10:24 AM
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Especially with all the pollen produced in January.
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Yeah I dunno fam. Awfully ironic that 19 has yeller shat
Jan 27, 2024, 11:01 AM
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and low and behold so do I on the same day.
I've got no idea what's causing all of this.
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Doesn't look like a flaming Sonata, so I can't help ya.***
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Jan 26, 2024, 2:13 PM
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You must know the general area of the leak.
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Jan 27, 2024, 9:43 AM
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Slide a piece of cardboard beneath the car and measure the distance from each edge to the tires. Measure the distance from the front bumper too. Start the car and look at the cardboard it while it is running.
After the leaks show up on the cardboard shut off the engine and raise the hood. Lay the cardboard on the same area on top of the engine.
I've been all over the underside(s) of every car I've owned. When they see me coming with a bucket of tools they just give up and roll over. I've wished women had that esteem for me.
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