2007 328xi: Blue liquid leaking from drivers side engine compartment

jbcourt · 02-08-2013, 02:22 PM

2007 328xi Coupe
The other day my girlfriend noticed a Blue liquid on the garage floor where my car rests. I tasted the liquid and it tasted nothing like coolant. It has a taste like detergent. I tasted the windshield cleaner and they MIGHT be the same. But the windshield reservoir is on the opposite side of the engine compartment. So how could it get all the way to the driver’s side? Also this does not happen all the time. This has happened only twice in the last 3 weeks.

Does anybody have a Clue on what this Blue liquid could be?

Does anyone know if the coolant for a 2007 328xi is blue?

Btw the 6” calipers are there for scale only. And the oil spots are from a ’05 wrx I owned before the BMW.
I want to add that I will never buy a Japanese car again! The BMW is by far superior to any Japanese car I have owned. My opinion.

pjm · 02-08-2013, 02:26 PM

Leaky headlight washer? Very common - happened to mine.

JuppiOne · 02-08-2013, 03:15 PM

what do coolant and washer fluid taste like anyway?

jbcourt · 02-08-2013, 03:17 PM

Yeah I'll look into that. I didnt even realize the car had headlight washers. What youre saying makes good sense.

jbcourt · 02-08-2013, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by JuppiOne

what does coolant and washer fluid taste like anyway?

Antifreeze is sweet cleaner is not. But I was thinking over the years that someone developed a coolant that is not sweet. And that could be what was leaking.

trk06 · 02-08-2013, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by JuppiOne

what does coolant and washer fluid taste like anyway?

seriously

phillip@bmpdesign · 02-08-2013, 03:39 PM

Brake fluid is also blue and oily, whereas coolant and cleaner fluid is not.

bender rodriguez · 02-08-2013, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by JuppiOne

what do coolant and washer fluid taste like anyway?

Animals like the taste so it must be good

KwlAznKid · 02-08-2013, 05:53 PM

you TASTED it?! lol

///M3NACE · 02-08-2013, 06:14 PM

semen. Car busted a nut.

RC Post · 02-08-2013, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by KwlAznKid

you TASTED it?! lol

Is that even safe? haha

Das_Stig · 02-08-2013, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by RC Post

Is that even safe? haha

lol i was wondering the same thing guess it might take a bit more than a taste to kill you but still.. why taste it.

random puddle on ground, taste it.. urine, definitely urine.

darn meant my 400th post to be more meaningful.

alexwhittemore · 02-08-2013, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by RC Post

Is that even safe? haha

Not really, but the toxic dose of a normal 50/50 mix is something like .2L for an average sized adult, so though it's quite poisonous, a quick taste won't do much harm. Not to say that I'd recommend tasting engine fluids, color and location should usually be enough to distinguish one from another.

One time in college, one of our crazy chem professors walked by our student group office door and noticed a bottle of I think model RC fuel. He kept walking, but then poked his head back and goes, unprompted, "You know, if you put a little drop of that on the tip of your tongue, you'll get high as a kite! But not more than that, or it'll kill ya," and then just kept walking.

Thinking back on it, it seems more likely it was something other than nitro, could have been anything from potassium nitrate to HTPB curative. We had a lot of exotic stuff lying around.

Anyway, point is, don't lick engine fluids.

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jbcourt Enlisted Member 7 Rep 37 Posts Drives: 2007 328xi and 2008 335i Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Puyallup iTrader: (0)	2007 328xi: Blue liquid leaking from drivers side engine compartment 2007 328xi Coupe The other day my girlfriend noticed a Blue liquid on the garage floor where my car rests. I tasted the liquid and it tasted nothing like coolant. It has a taste like detergent. I tasted the windshield cleaner and they MIGHT be the same. But the windshield reservoir is on the opposite side of the engine compartment. So how could it get all the way to the driver’s side? Also this does not happen all the time. This has happened only twice in the last 3 weeks. Does anybody have a Clue on what this Blue liquid could be? Does anyone know if the coolant for a 2007 328xi is blue? Btw the 6” calipers are there for scale only. And the oil spots are from a ’05 wrx I owned before the BMW. I want to add that I will never buy a Japanese car again! The BMW is by far superior to any Japanese car I have owned. My opinion.
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///M3NACE Banned 168 Rep 3,900 Posts Drives: E36 M3, E36 Vert , E90 N52 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Downers Grove, IL iTrader: (5)	semen. Car busted a nut.
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