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Prius is leaking coolant

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by Deacon Jones, Nov 27, 2023.

  1. Deacon Jones

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    Hello so today my car decided to surprise me And is now just pissing out my coolant from my tank close to the top the one connected to the electric box thing idk I’m frustrated
    Anyways it looks like it’s coming from my radiator fan but I can’t seem to find out what it is coming from can anyone help me? It would be greatly appreciated
     
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    perhaps the water pump?
     
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    So it looks like it's coming from in front of the fan just below the thing that says hybrid synergy drive and has a silver lid on it the inverter more than likely you're going to have to undo the 10 mm bolts on your fan or fans and lean them back You can push them back a little bit so you can get a view in there if it's pissing water that means it's under pressure so it's got to be coming from the radiator so more than likely the radiator is going to have to come out The plastic tank that holds coolant is not under pressure so it wouldn't usually piss out of there it could be cracked and leak but it wouldn't squirt like it was under pressure pissing or streams is generally under pressure it'll be coming from the aluminum radiator assembly.
     
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    That's near the location of the radiator cap... I bet once the engine is cold again you can simply replace the radiator cap and top it off with coolant and it'll be problem solved.
     
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    Right we that one is holding stuff it’s the other one next to the hybrid thing
     
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    It’s the one next to the hybrid silver thing that’s just pushing it all out
     
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    It’s more like it’s just rapidly draining also if I did have to replace the radiator how much would that cost do you think?
     
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    I don’t really have any it was hard to just see what was happening I can try to take some when I get to trying again
     
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    If you go out and look at a car at a junkyard or see your radiator at a shop for this car you'll see it's two radiators if you will anyway regardless of all that I have three laying here and I got them all for nothing and anytime I'm over at LKQ I can grab another one I just usually don't because these things almost never get replaced or it is very rare other than a front accident.
     
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    All you're gonna get here are guesses. You, and only you can find the leak.