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RX350 2007 Leak (water - probably) even when cold

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Old 08-28-12, 03:37 PM
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Default RX350 2007 Leak (water - probably) even when cold

Hi all, just bought a 2007 RX350 with 80K miles on it. Yesterday wife noticed that there's some liquid under the car, probably water as she can't smell anything. She did not remember if she used AC or not. I tried to look under the car for half an hour, both with the car running (with AC off) and off, and couldn't see anything dropping. We then cleaned the parking lot, and parked the car. This morning, when my wife drove the car out of the lot, I see some liquid again. I don't think it is oil either, but because the lot is already dirty, not sure if it is water or something else.

My question is: is it possible that there's water drops out even when the car is off and cold? Or it has to be something else? I will try to put a pan under the car tonight to see, but hopefully someone here can give me some advice. I appreciate that.
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Happens on my 2007 all the time. It's the air conditioning drain line. It will discharge water if the A/C is on auto or manual, recirculate or not. The water was leaving white spots on the concrete floor of the garage, so I taped down a thick piece of cardboard
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Thanks Rainbird, If the liquid dropped from my car is water, it is just weird that it drops even when the car is cold and parked all night! Right after we parked and turned off the car last night, we looked under it for a few minutes to see if there's any liquid leak, but couldn't find any. Then we saw the liquid this morning. Weird!

Anyway, I have set a "system" to collect the liquid if it drops tonight, will update tomorrow morning ...
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Well last night I put a large pan under the car ... and nothing happened. May be I just over-react, but it is still weird
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Originally Posted by SGS3
Well last night I put a large pan under the car ... and nothing happened. May be I just over-react, but it is still weird
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