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Don't think it's brake fluid. Brake doesn't leak often and there is too much leaked. There is only 1L of brake fluid in the whole car.

This has to be coolant. Coolant is slippery but not oily. It is usually gold in color if it's factory fluid.

Like others said, oil would not spread out like that. oil is more viscous.

So, I would get it flat bed to dealer for fix. You can use AAA roadside assistance. I would not recommend shipping the car with a known issue. Shippers often need to rearrange their load and may end up running your car dry. They will not be liable for that.

 

I'm in Calgary and own a 996TT, what part of town is the car? I could go have a quick look if it helps you. I can at least tell you what type of fluid this is and should be able to figure out where it's coming from.

PM me if you like.

Paul

 

I should have specified in the photos that this is what it looked like after it had been wiped up. This is why it looks so thin.

Thanks for the directions on where things are located. I will pass these along via the phone tomorrow. I'm assuming all 4 suggested levels can be accurately checked without running the engine.

We have rolled the car forward a couple feet and will see what kind of fluid accumulates, if any, over the next 24 hours.

 

Pentosin is very thin and spreads easily. Hydralically assisted clutch is my primary guess, although the colour doesn't match Pentosin 100%. Based on those pictures it's the transmission that's wet, just below that clutch thingy ( I'm fortunately running a GT2 system... ).
Second guess, based on that location, would be coolant from engine-to-cabin heater lines. Reservoir -or engine-to-radiator line- leak wouldn't flow from there.
Oil, hardly not, too big leak... BTW, engine needs to be in it's operating temperature ( +80C ) before the level can be measured via the OBC. But if it's oil, it's coming from rear of the engine, probably from the RMS.

 

I also think oil would not spread like that on the floor. Also, if it were pentosin, it would be easy to point out due to its "unique" flavor, right ?

 

Someone may have put reg power steering fluid in and now its leaking though the slave? Or the oil cooler may have a leak on a cooling plate? Hard to say with out knowing what the fluid is. Good luck.

 

I am in Calgary as well if you would like someone to take a look at it.

 

I stopped by today to have a look at his car, what I found was the following. The fluid leaking from up around the slave cylinder area and is definately Pentosin. I checked the front clutch master cylinder and the reservoir was half way between the level lines. The rear pentosin reservoir was bone dry showing nothing on the dip stick. I had the failure with my system that pushed pentosin to the front master cylinder over flowing it, but have not seen this issue, I would assume it's a pressure line/fitting on the slave cylinder/accumulator.

Any other thoughts?

 

A time for a GT2 slave cylinder upgrade...

 

THe accumulator is becoming loose....

 

Big Kudos to Basic who drove all the way across town to check out my car

It is supposed to be flatbedded to the local Porsche dealer and they will look at it today. I will update when I know more from them. Thanks to all the members for their advice.

 

You've been repped! Nice to see 6'er helping each other!

 

Hopefully it is something as simple as the previous owner having the slave or accumilator replaced right before the car was sold and the accum is not tightened all the way down (very easy to happen since it is hard to tighten). Dealership should be able to just tighten is, refill rear reserviour and bleed the system and you are good to go. Hopefully none of the fittings on the slave are stripped as they will be a pain to change.

Let us know what the dealer finds.

Repping Basic!!! Nice job!

 

It was towed to the dealer this morning. As expected, it was the slave cylinder.

They are fixing it currently. They have to ship in a part but are expecting to have it done by the weekend. Hopefully this will be the last of my troubles for the next little while at least.