Forums » Grassroots Motorsports » A/C Leak, or Drove Through Grease?
  • Woody

    May 12, 2010 8:09 p.m. Woody SuperDork

    Yesterday, I decided to wash the bird crap off of my car since I was having hand surgery and it would be parked in the garage for over a month.

    I discovered what looked like blueish gray grease behind the front wheel and along the length of the drivers side rocker. I figured that I drove through a blob of grease on the road and it got sprayed along the underside of the car. I cleaned it off and, as expected, I found it up inside the front wheel well.

    The thing is, though, that is where the dryer for the air conditioner is and I'm wondering if maybe what I found is oil from a leak in the A/C system. I did have the air on last week, but it never blew really cool anyway, so I didn't notice a problem.

    Maybe I'm being paranoid, but, because of this hand issue, I can neither work on nor drive the car to figure out if I have an A/C problem or if I just drove through grease in the road. I also know almost nothing about A/C systems or what flows through them, so I'm turning to the board for help.

    Any suggestions?

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  • barnca

    May 12, 2010 8:22 p.m. barnca Reader

    cv joint grease possibly? just throwin it out

  • Woody

    May 13, 2010 1:13 p.m. Woody SuperDork

    Nope, rear wheel drive. Unless it was someone else's CV joint grease.

    This is the sort of thing that people who like this sort of thing will really like.

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