I'm car retarded so idk what to do with my girlfriend's

>>14518133
It's a Ford so it uses green coolant. Was the car overheating? You could have blew a head gasket and locked the engine. Try starting it again.

I tried googling it and the only thing I could find was that the AC condenser might have fucked up but idk.

seems like your girlfriend's SLMR busted and it's leaking ECTOPL45M. You need a charge proton pack and a trap for it.

>>14518133
>It's not the antifreeze because that's orangish yellow.


Quit driving GM shitboxes, its hazardous to your health.

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>>14518146
The coolant is orange-yellow though.

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>>14518156
>cant tell if bait

>>14518156
It's a Taurus

>>14518155
Good idea

>>14518158

Show us inside the radiator cap

that's gonna be radiator fluid

>>14518180
There isn't a radiator cap

Holy moley, is the mystery fluid oily? Its probably freon...

>>14518199
It's sweet smelling, I'm going to go back out and check it now

>>14518158
Ah. I've been here before. I was driving my parent's old astro van and I heard a loud bang and a hissing sound. Turns out a line had blew off the a/c compressor. The green could be uv dye to detect leaks.

Check the a/c lines.

>>14518193
kill yourself

>>14518205
lick it

>>14518209
It really doesn't. Taurus don't have radiator caps.

>>14518219
Ferd pls

>easy explanation
Some asshole put in the wrong type of coolant, topped it off with the right kind to make it seem like the car's fine and now your shit's blown up.

>>14518228
Lots of cars don't have one. The radiator cap is the coolant tank cap.

>>14518229
Unlikely. The orange would mix with the green and be a uniform color.

>>14518229
Shouldn't I start seeing the orange coolant dripping then?

probably a crack in the expansion tank
or a hose slipped

>>14518239
Yeah it's like straight up sickly, neon green. She said it was kind of whitish smoke coming out of the hood.

>>14518250
Something broke in the AC system, the green shit is leak detection dye, the white smoke was R-134a. Car is fine, you just won't have AC.

>>14518250
Post a pic of inside of coolant tank

>>14518267
I'll have AC in my car she won't but fuck it

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>>14518275
This?

Smell the liquid if sweat smell its antifreeze that's what it looks like in the first pic where things are wet

>>14518301
It's green and really greasy/oily. Smells sweet.

>>14518305
what does it taste like

turn the AC on and see if it works Eisteins

>>14518321
Kek

>>14518267
I said I'm car retarded but I feel completely retarded asking this question:

If she had the heat on and not the AC, would it still blow up? I assume it's still under pressure even with the air running so I wouldn't be surprised.

>>14518321
Raspberries

>>14518331
Its always under pressure. look at the hoses and the compressor and the freon lines going into radiator

>>14518331
If she had the defroster on? Yes. Idk how much pressure is in the system when the compressor isn't running.

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LMAO at the lives of all the people saying it's coolant.

If she uses the defroster most manufactures have the AC comp come on when it's in use to keep the AC system in use during the winter.

>>14518331
The AC system is always pressurized. I can guarantee you that it blew out somewhere. Everybody telling you it is coolant/antifreeze is a fucking idiot that has never worked on a car.
If you have a blacklight, put it on the green shit and it will glow like alien cum.

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>>14518376
taste it and see if its alien cum

>>14518133
fyi ford coolant is supposted to be yellow.

You've already got the updated expansion tank for the Vulcans, so that's a plus.

Seeing green fluorescent dye like that tells me imminently a/c. Take a look at your ac lines and see if any of them look obviously fucked. Grab lines and see if any of them are straight up broken, might be a major leak, look at connections and everything that's visible without too much dissassembly

OP just start the car and see if the AC works. You'd know pretty quick.

A loud fucking bang accompanied by that neon green shit usually means one of the A/C lines blew. Trust me, it almost happened right in my fucking face last week. Grab a blacklight and start searching.

>>14518392
Yeah I'm fairly certain a line is busted somewhere but I don't know a ton about auto. Probably going to just have someone take a look at it that knows what they are doing. Half the responses here are people saying it's coolant or for me to taste it so I'm not sure if I can do anything based on those suggestions.

>>14518408
I thought if the compressor was blown to not use the air at all

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???

>>14518418
It's the fucking AC.
The people saying coolant have never worked on a car.
I guarantee its the AC.
Turn on the car, turn on the AC, and then look at the AC compressor. The center of the pulley will not be spinning.
Do that, the come back and say "Yeah its the AC."

>>14518424
It's fine. It has enough residual oil to tell you if it works or not.

>>14518435
Holy shit batman

>>14518435
Oh look an AC line busted.

>>14518424
The clutch won't engage if there no refrigerant.

>>14518435
>>14518450
>>14518452
OP here.

If everyone knew how to work on cars then mechanics wouldn't have jobs.

I just checked again and yeah this would be it. Makes sense, since the liquid shot off in the direction the line is facing.

I love you guys.

>>14518469
No problem senpai just use your head next time and pay more attention and you wont have to post on this shit website anymore

>>14518469
dont recharge it yourself, take it somewhere to have it re filled with oil and evacuated first or youll be in for a new AC compressor

>>14518209
>>14518219
>>14518228

My 99 Malibu didn't have a radiator cap either. Just a reservoir

>>14518411
there may be a port on the back of the compressor that was held in place with a snap ring. that might have let go. if the ban happened where the car is, check the ground and engine for a metal plug. happened to me once