General Help need urgently!!!!

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General Help need urgently!!!!

Will500

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so as you can see from my previous posts I recently got my first car. And I went to go and sort some of the body work out and I noticed a massive puddle underneath my car. After inspecting he puddle and checking the levels it might be coolant being a little bit lower than when I first serviced the purchasing the car. Any help is seriously appreciated

Also my dad thinks someone just pee on my car but I didn’t fancy checking that it was pee
 
Short of you touching ot sniffing it, there's not much advice to get.
Are there signs of something leaking under the enginebay?
 
Top the coolant up to correct level then run the car at idle and warm it right up at least 15 mins, turn heate onto high and make sure you are getting very hot air from the vents!.
Open the bonnet and check that the top and bottom radiator hoses are hot!( mind your hand on the fan when checking the bottom one!) and wait and check that the fan is cutting in properly ?- if all good then grip the top hose (careful its quite hot by now!) and squezze it firmly there should be a noticeable resistance! if the system is pressurising correctly! .
If its "floppy" or you can touch both internal surfaces of the hose together then its not pressurising properly and you have a leak somewhere! id check the heater outlet pipe on the thermostat first ! as they are made of plastic and can snap off aftermarket thermostats have a metal pipe to cure this.
 
If you get a puddle that size and people think it's coolant, then there would be steam from the engine bay and severe drip when running.
In the 80's before cars had ac, our accord came standard with it, when I parked up people often said the car was leaking as a considerable amount of water would run out from under the car
 
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