Okay so I live on a military base and none of our roads go above 40 mph only the high way in and out goes up to 60 needless to say I don't drive above 80 hardly ever.
My coolant light will come on and off some days very few days at that So I'll add a little coolant then goes away never any liquid on the ground.

But once like every 3 to 4 weeks it will come on away stay on and when I park and go inside for the night the next morning there will be coolant all over the ground and I've check for leaky spots find none except for the little hose at the top of the radiator (my guess is a over flow hose) it doesn't connect to anything but when there's coolant on the ground I check that little hose and I can see drops of coolant left in the hose. Can anyone tell me why it's doing this? I have stock radiator with the plastic reservoir on the top.

 

it could be overfilled, might need to be burped, also could be a coolant seal is shot. is your exhaust white and sweet smelling?

 

I have not checked I know like zero when it comes to cars if I can YouTube it and fix it that's how I do it lol. But my exhaust does some time have a spell to it sweet or not I wouldn't know I always thought it was my breaks and after I changed them I did really ever noticed any kind of smell bit I can always run the car and smell next time to see and and I looking for white smoke?

 

if a coolant seal is bad (internally) coolant will make its way into the rotor housing (think head gasket). any mechanic can do a leak down test for this. if thats the case you will also see bubbles in the coolant tank when the caps is off and the engine is running. DO NOT remove the cap if the car is running and warmed up

 

This actually happen last night so when I woke up for pt I saw the coolant on the ground so I started my car and popped the hood and added coolant and did not see any bubbles in the plastic tank but I could see there was no coolant left in there.

 

you may want to seek a mechanic

 

Did you check the nipple on the top of the radiator?

It is a common thing to fail.....

 

Okay thank you for the advice! I was just trying to see if it was something I was doing wrong.

 

Is the nipple on top of the actual radiator it's self or near the plastic tank cause I will check that

 

op where are you located? lots of helpful members on this site usually willing to give a hand. its tough to figure out on the net

on the rad itself, it connects to the bottom of the tank

 

Fort bragg NC.