My Son has a 2009 1.4l  SE Petrol Engine Roomster.

 

It has a coolant leak from the rear of the engine up underneath the main black plastic air inlet manifold - where the injectors / fuel rail is.

 

Looking from underneath the car, coolant drips off the underside of the plastic manifold and seems to originate from further up closer to the engine / manifold mating flange.

 

From above the small hose from the radiator  to the rear of the engine goes down into this area but the last 1" or so is hidden so I can't be sure it's from here.

 

The coolant does not always leak, seems to be when a motorway run has been done or lots of stop start traffic i.e engine very hot. It can go from the full level to minimum in a 8 miles or go for days ok (all shortish journeys)

 

We ran the engine up on ramps last night for quite a while with only a few drips appearing - as a seperate point does the electric fan not Kick in at all? It was cold last night but with the cars nose 2/3rds inside the Garage I would have thought it would start up at some point.

How easy is it to remove the whole air intake manifold in order to check out/ replace this pipe?

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Does the forth coming new Haynes Skoda Fabia petrol & diesel (May 07-14) 07 to 64 cover my engine type which I believe is a EA111 version

 

thanks for any help

Could the engine be overheating? Does the red coolant lamp on the display work?

Hi,

Indeed the red coolant warning lamp does work as does the blue one at cold start up.

 

The red one came on at the start of the problem because it indeed was overheating due to the coolant leaking and draining the expansion tank a few inches past the minimum. A top up of water worked ok and has to be regualy topped up since due to the leak from the rear of the engine.

 

The engine  oil looks mint so its not pointing to the cylinder head blowing.

 

Its a bit of a poor job not having a proper temp gauge but there you go.

 

thanks for your input