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oil residue in air dam... S70 1998

posted by  andymsn on  Sun Jan 5 08:05 CST 2003
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I have a 1998 S70 T5M with about 62,000 miles on it that I purchased April 1, 2002 with 33,100 miles. Needless to say, I drive a lot. LOVE the car, though, and have had virtually no problems.

I change the oil religiously every 3,000 miles using Castol 10W-30 in summer, and 5W-30 in winter. Two oil changes ago I noticed some liquid leaking out from the five inch long slot in the right side of the black plastic air dam that clips into the frame and screws in on either side of the radiator/oil cooler/condenser area. I removed the air dam and found a fair amount of gunk that I was not able to immediately identify. It seemed mostly like oil and sand/road debris but there were no obvious leaks anywhere above the dam so it was hard to say, for sure (there appear to be three cooling-type units about the dam - what I believe to be the radiator/oil cooler and condenser - not necessarily in that order, though). I completely cleaned out the dam and refastened it.

When I took the car in for its 60k service (at about 57k), I mentioned this to the dealer and they said they would look at it. They inspected and, as I recall, determined that there is some fitting related to the line to the oil cooler that was leaking and repaired the problem under my warrantygold.com policy (by the way, FABULOUS coverage under their Diamond Plan - and VERY easy to deal with, too).

Anyway, the next oil change I did (less than three weeks after the 60k service - I tell them to forget the oil change in that service since I do them on my own), the fluid was there again. I again tried to find the leak without success, cleaned out the dam and replaced it. Early last week, when doing yet another oil change, the dam had fluid in it again and this time it was pretty obvious it was oil. Cleaned it out and will look at it again this coming week to see how much appears to be getting in there each week of driving.

Anyone else have this issue? Any thoughts on where this stuff is coming from? If so, what might be the solution?

Thanks in advance for taking the time to respond.






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