Car Woes

The car is getting through approximately a litre of water a day. Not good. The fact it is leaking is bad, but the fact that it is leaking at a constant rate regardless of whether the engine is in use or not seems to imply it could be a crack in the engine (expensive to fix) or the radiator is buggered (very expensive). Really I need to get under the car and have a good poke around under there and see if I can find the source of the leak.

A quick inspection last night seemed to suggest that the bottom left of the radiator was wet, but I couldn't tell whether the water was just running down over the radiator or whether it was the radiator itself. How anybody does any serious work on cars I do not know, it seems near impossible to get inside the damn things to do anything with them.

The Haynes manual isn't proving particularly helpful in the matter. It tells me that I definitely have a leak, and it suggests remedying this with the following procedure:

Right. Thanks for that Haynes.