Hi new person here. A little intro, I bought my wifey a new XD back in 2008, Magnetic grey auto, tinted the glass and had a remote starter put in. any who she loves it and has been a good car for her and us. It has 43000 on it now. I like this site very informative and enthusiastic about the Scions. I personally like the XB and have been eyeballing them for a while now. Any way for the question concern I have.

I noticed some dry pink or orange colored stuff on the inside of the hood on the data plate pass side of car. It is also on the alternator pulley and I think there is some on the water pump pulley. It appears to have been slung on there from a pulley. The coolant level remains the same and there are no fluid leaks that I have yet to see underneath. I did use some orange colored washer fluid but have since filled with the blue stuff. I wiped it off the hood and the little that was on the firewall. It has not run hot. It runs all same same, I am baffled so far. I thought maybe someone could shed a little light for me. Bill

 

it may be the water pump starting to go out; i know there used to be an issue with tc's of them going out prematurely but i'm just kind of guessing

 

It's the waterpump. I had the problem with my xB. It was a pink line that appeared on my hood. I had an extended warranty and it was repaired and covered for free.

 

thats what I am thinking it is. I didn't buy and extended warranty service plan I was hoping the reliability would be better than this. Oh well

 

I took her car in and they replaced the faulty water pump. NC under warranty.

 

Price?

 

NC under warranty. no charge

 

hah. he was probably like me and thought NC was "not covered"

 

lol, I think it took them one hour to one and a half hours. Wasn't much time at all. Before hand I was thinking maybe $300-350 total. Autozone sells the water pump for less than a c note if you look it up under the Corolla 1.8 L size engine. I assume that is the same.

 

lol yep

 

so i was working on the car today and sure enough, looked up on the hood and the pink stuff was sprayed all over. same symptoms. 2008 as well. guess ill be stopping at the shop sooner rather then later ;/