my car is leaking a clear oily like fluid by the front tire. I am still able to drive, what else could it be??
2006-08-16 07:11:40 · 13 answers · asked by ? 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Get it fixed, you probably still have brake fluid left but, that is more than likely what it is, it will run out! May be loose! I hope no one would wat nt to do that to you, it is possible to just loosen it!
2006-08-16 07:18:35 · answer #1 · answered by skyguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is actually oily, and is just to the inside of your tire, and very near the tire, it could be brake fluid. It could also be power steering fluid.
But if it is on the right side of the car, just in front of the door, and about a foot under the car, it is probably just water from the air conditioner.
Put a piece of cardboard under the car to catch it, then you can have someone else look at it.
By the way, brake fluid has a very distinctive smell.
2006-08-16 12:06:20 · answer #2 · answered by Tub T (Mike Blanche) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is possible, do you have enemies? If it is by the front tire it may be the flexable line leaking. That goes from your brake cylinder to the frame. It may be the wheel cylinder itself. Check your the little tank above your master cylinder to see if that is low on fluid. Your owners manual will tell you how to do that. Power steering fluid is also clear. If you still drive the car the hole has to be small. Thomas S.
2006-08-16 07:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that sounds like break fluid its clear and oily but the lines them selves do go bad over time and leak. Although it is possible that someone cut your break line they would just have to get under the side of the vehicle and reach around with som snipping pliers and cut the line but if that happened you would loose your breaks in about 3-4 stops and you would have a huge mess of the oily fluid you found
2006-08-16 07:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably your slave cylinder is leaking (depends on how old your car is, of course.) Check your brake fluid reservoir and see how much is left. If you are not sure, take it to a garage to be checked asap !
If someone had cut the lines, then all your fluid would leak out almost immediately, and you wouldn't have any brakes at all.
2006-08-16 23:07:18 · answer #5 · answered by Smotter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you suspect that brake fluid leaking, have your car towed to the service station, once the brake fluid will leak out, you won't have any brakes. The same goes for power steering fluid (it also can leak close to the front tires) - if it leaks out, you will have no power steering assist.
2006-08-16 07:32:02 · answer #6 · answered by svthech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might be brake fluid, but if you lose a lot of brake fluid, your BRAKES WON'T WORK! I mean, you won't be able to stop.....and it is not a good feeling!
Go get this checked out before somebody gets hurt!
And yes, it IS possible for somebody to cut your brake line.....Somebody did it to me once, and I couldn't stop.
2006-08-16 07:17:54 · answer #7 · answered by tonevault 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it isn't very functional on the prompt. In olden cases it grow to be no longer unusual to start up an engine or perhaps force off without putting your foot on the brake. All cutting-aspect vehicles with computerized transmissions require the brake be utilized formerly the vehicle might want to correctly be shifted into equipment, and the decrease hose might want to be somewhat obtrusive then. If the sufferer is driving a motor vehicle with a guide transmission (activities vehicles are the obtrusive selection) the decrease might want to bypass omitted till the brakes were truly mandatory. some activities motor vehicle drivers do not use the brake a lot, merely downshifting for customary deceleration, till they honestly desire the brakes. Then Bwahh-ha-ha-ha! it would want to correctly be executed with a level of a pocket knife on the rubber area merely interior each and each wheel, stabbing close to the metal setting up on the end. As yet another spoke of, doing it to all 4 wheels might want to be required to make constructive the brakes were lost. In actual existence it may be an iffy way of causing a crash yet in fiction it truly is adequate.
2016-11-25 21:06:10 · answer #8 · answered by domagala 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it is possible to sut a line. take of the front wheel where the leak is and find where it is coming from, if not take it to the mechanic. either way it is a safety hazard so get it checked
2006-08-16 07:29:25 · answer #9 · answered by turner32542 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it could also be power steering fluid, vehicle type would help here
2006-08-16 07:23:25 · answer #10 · answered by Christian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋