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[/url] :mrgreen: Hi guys. I do intend to find out where the leak is, and I do suspect that you are right John. It's a pity that it seems to be in that area, but if I keep the car another year or so and get another 20K out of it, while keeping an eye on the leak, perhaps then, when the...

Replaced Air con and radio fuses, and now air con works and radio powers on. Still need the code though! :) Steady progress!!!!

Seat Garage wants €50 to connect to the computer and retrieve the code. I have some software that might help. Gotta go to work now, but might take the display off tomorrow, remove the radio, get the serial number for it, and run it through the software. Need is asap as my air con and front...

Spark plugs solved the engine light problem. Thank the lord for that. I've a new battery in it now also, but I've lost my radio and don't have a code. In fact, even if I did have a code, I can't seem to get anything from the radio at all, not even any power. Is that strange? About the CAT. He...

Car is being inspected today. I will report back when I get the results. Strange thing that when I drive the car cold, since the engine light came on, there was a strange click under the accelerator. Only when the car was cold. And only shortly after startup. It happened the 2 times I took the...

Hi Mursal. I have checked the coolant temp sensor, and I had a good look today for anything loose or wet. Nothing is sticking out. The flashing engie light concerns me, as that is the ''idiot'' light, if you know what I mean. I haven't done any driving since yesterday. However, I am thinking...

I guess I need to start considering the possibility that I somehow did some damage with the water. So lets go through it. I never took the engine cover off, and so I can't see how I got near the spark plugs, for example, or the air filter? I did spray between the timing belt case and the side of...

Well, I was thinking that since a bad spark plug or a bad oxygen sensor can cause the CAT to fail, maybe the CAT has now failed and maybe the (potential) bad spark plug or Sensor is now causing the car to jerk? Failing that then I must have gotten something wet when I washed the car, but that is...

What is in your mind Mursal? Do you have a suspicion? The temperature gauge was acting normal for the most part during this. It did drop a small bit, mid way between minimum and halfway and then went back up to normal(half way). It seems to be acting normal enough? If I disconnect plug for the...

Sweet mother of God. What next? So this morning, no oil drip evidence beneath the car. Good news you'd think? However, this evening, I got into the car to go for a drive to the shops. It started very weakly, jittered, engine bouncing quite a bit, engine light starts flashing on and off on the...

I haven't looked very closely at the dipstick for any O rings, but I will. The dipstick did previously have a problem where it wasn't staying in place properly. It is staying i place perfectly now though.

Not a drop of oil to be seen on the cardboard this morning? Not getting carried away just yet though. I moved the cardboard and am leaving it under the car for a few more hours to see if anything drops. Could it possibly be that there isn't an oil leak at all? After all the evidence to the...

Hi Mursal. I haven't gotten under it yet. But I have cleaned any oil marks from where I can see down into it. Basically I used a low power air driven pressure washer. One of the garden washers that you pump the air into manually. I felt an electric one might be too much power. But I got all that...

My next step is this. The point where the engine connects to the Timing belt casing has a lot of oil on it. So, I took a picture of it and then washed it as best I could and took an ''after'' picture. The pictures are below. Maybe if oil starts to appear around here again, we'll have our...

Judging by where the oil stains are landing, I would say it's at the front of the engine, just behind the timing belt casing. However, how it spread back around to the back of the engine is a weird one? So I could very easily be wrong. For what it's worth, I was out for a drive this evening...

OK, so I took around 30 photos of the engine from above the car(for a video slideshow), since for the moment, I have no way of jacking it up to get under it. First picture is the ground under the leak this morning, and the amount of oil that dropped after 12 hours parked. Some of the pictures...

I think the drip is fairly close to the timing belt. But I am not convinced that it is hitting the belt. I can't get the car jacked up to get a proper look but I will certainly wash the engine with a low power pressure washer and try to get a camera underneath to take some of my famous...

It actually seems to be less than the previous day? I'll wash the engine anyway as soon as I can, and try to get some pictures from underneath the engine. That might help with decisions too. The distance from the front wheel to the main spill, does that give any indication as to where the leak...

Ok, so first of all, the mechanic who looked at the car has insisted that the CAT needs to be replaced before it breaks and falls off. I told him that the noise has been there since the previous owner had the car and that it passed NCT with that noise, but he seems adamant. Now, on to the...