Water Leaking under Car - Honda Civic

Deeandra · 16-06-2014 12:57pm #1

Hi all,

I have a 2008 5dr Petrol Honda Civic (1.8) and just yesterday I noticed that when parked up, there's a little stream of water running under it.

I've taken a look at it and I can't find the source, it seems to be appearing to far right of engine under the front passenger side. I'm almost certain it's water as there's no hint of colour / smell from it and it was quite cold to the touch.

I know that this is normal if using A/C as it's condensation but I wasn't using the A/C at all yesterday, just had the air vent set to cold air.

There's no warnings on dash and everything seems to be ok there. There was however a very faint noise from engine after parked up, almost similar to the air you hear when bleeding a radiator but it was very faint and could be just normal engine sounds of the car cooling down. It was driven on about 3 separate hour long journeys yesterday with at least an hour between journeys.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Audioslaven · 16-06-2014 1:13pm

I know someone who gets this also from the air conditioning in a civic diesel. He was noticing a little stream of water and it turned out to be the air con and this is normal.

Deeandra · 16-06-2014 2:22pm

Thanks for the reply Audioslaven.

I've heard this is normal for air conditioning, but I wasn't using the ac at all yesterday (or even in the past few weeks) so not sure if this is the cause.

Zcott · 16-06-2014 11:28pm

Even with just the cold air on and no AC it's still condensation. I have an 06 Civic diesel that does the same thing, nothing to worry about.

colm_mcm · 17-06-2014 12:03am

Mine does that too
(Much to people's amusement at midway)

Deeandra · 19-06-2014 10:34am

Thanks for the responses guys! It hasn't done it since and I'm happy enough that it's just the A/C.

Cheers!

Water Leaking under Car - Honda Civic

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