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YOUR RESEARCHWhat is this tube in the front near the battery compartment?
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Check your oil carefully, and remove the oil fill cap and check for froth.
What is this tube in the front near the battery compartment?
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Check your oil carefully, and remove the oil fill cap and check for froth.
What is this tube in the front near the battery compartment?
Check oil too
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What is this tube in the front near the battery compartment?
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I have a 2004 996 Convertible
I suspect I'm having a heat exchanger leak (I'm losing fluid with no leak in the back of the car at all and when I turn on the heat, my window fogs up and the car smells a bit like coolant).
While taking everything apart, I found this tube not connected to anything and can't find anything that it would plug into. I comes from the corner of the passenger side behind an A/C hard line.
It's not for the wiper fluid...I found that line and they other ends that go to the sprayers are connected.
What is it and where does it go?
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Battery vent as said, or possibly the evaporator tray drain for condensation. If you are getting fog in the cabin, there may be water in the tray and the port is plugged, but that doesn't explain your loss of coolant.
Check your oil carefully, and remove the oil fill cap and check for froth.
Thanks guys. Just did a search for battery vent tube and saw a picture of it.
I will check the oil too. The smell of coolant inside the car is pretty strong, so I'm thinking that I have a leak in the core and it's causing the window to fog up quickly (and it doesn't wipe off easily which leads me to believe it's not just condensation, but the coolant itself).
For a leak get the spectroline / tracerline infrared dye kit ($50 ish) If you have a C4S they commonly leak at the joint between the plastic cap and the core of the radiator. Smelling coolant to me sounds like it's getting baked off somewhere, but I bet it's just simple leak.
I did the above and found a large leak on one side and a small one on the other. They seem to fail at the same time.
Good luck!
