Ok, so i changed my coolant a week ago. After 2 days of driving it, i started noticing the temperature gauge go up but not all the way up..maybe 3/4 of the way. i had my heater on and as it went up, the heater shut off. so i slid the heater thing to off and drove a few seconds until the gauge went back to the middle. after i got home i added a little water into the radiator because i dont think i added enough during the change. so after a few days of driving, didnt notice the temp gauge going up until lastnight. i dont know what's going on with my car.

can anyone help? should i re-do the coolant change?

thanks guys

 

can this be the problem?

 

ummmm...not to point out the obvious...but that's coolant coming from your oil pan...that could explain a problem i have with my 89 Corolla GT-S...my temp gauge indicates proper temp and everything......and i just replaced my rad 2 months ago......but i smell coolant all the time when i get outta my car.....and it's an EVER so slow leak 'cause there's never any puddles of it under my car or anything...........i just topped up my rad the other day and it took MAYBE 1/4 litre of coolant...so that's how much i lost in two month.......and i don't know where it's going............where my tranny bolts to the block it's wet around where the gasket it......and it's a LITTLE wet around where the oil pan mounts to the block too but i looks like oil.........it's probably like your picture.......just not that intense!! and i don't see coolant...i don't have any overheating problems like you're having.........i feel bad for ya.....that's sucks man. i'm not sure how coolant can be showing comin' outta your oil pan like that.

 

unless it's just the way the pic was taken....maybe it was dripping from somewhere above??

 

i dont know..i dont see and drips from above the oil pan..my car is a pos

 

The car isn't a POS, it simply has a few issues.
You want to talk about POS cars, start looking at Kias.

1) The temperature fluctuations are likely due to trapped air in the block's coolant passages or lines.

2)That dripping coolant is coming from the right place to be leaking directly from the water pump inlet. That's where I'd start searching for leakage.

 

you know you could always take it to the mech...i would but i have one that i can trust...

 

The leak isn't coming from the oil pan...that's just where leaking coolant drips from the water pump, as Dave said up higher.