doing the cardboard under the car test, today i went to do my stage 0 look over the vehicle since i finally got paid. anyways while i was at pep boys i noticed my coolant reservoir was damn near empty, upon closer inspection and cooling the vehicle off i opened the cap and saw there was a smidgen of coolant at the bottum of the res, so now i'm going to let it cool off again, fill the res and see what the cardboard will tell me. from what i've read on here it's a common issue for the o-ring at the thermostat housing could be the culprate, or it might've just been low from the years of use. we will see.

EDIT: should note, this car has never overheated or shown signs of running hot while i've owned it, this is just something i noticed about an hour ago

 

oh hell, mod moind moving this to the r56 forum, posting from my phone has yet owned me again

 

well color me baffled, the res was emptish, but nothing on the cardboard, only thing on the ground was water from the a/c condenser, when the a/c was off nothing dripped, when it was on it dripped a good amount on the ground, i went and got some white paper from inside to see if maybe (idk) it may've been coolant, and nope it was chilled water. even took the risk of dabbing some on the tongue to see if it had a sweet antifreeze taste/scent, and nope. drove it to the mini dealership but the service dept. closed already and i'll have to schedual an appointment monday. well now i'm lost. also what's with the lack of guages? like my temp gauge and such.

 

Hope it is a quick and easy fix. Sending your sympathy!!

 

well just walked out to my mini, coolant all over the ground