leaking/dripping just below start of rear offside sill.

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leaking/dripping just below start of rear offside sill.

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Is the above has just started happening after chmaging the spheres on my hdi. i noticed is slightly when I was changing them which i thought came out of a breather nipple/pipe from the rubber boot covering the bottom part of the strut. It was alright up until a few days back when I have noticed small patches on floor and my warning light showing on dash for low fluid. All fluid had recently been changed aswell (LHM Plus)

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The 'breather' pipe is actually the fluid return pipe connection, there should be a small bore plastic pipe connected to it, you probably pulled it out when you were changing the sphere.
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sorry!

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Xantia 2.0 hdi forte. 2000/W reg, 90bhp model.

Didnt know there was a pipe that goes onto the breather nipple that points up?
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If it goes inside the rubber boot it must be a return pipe or the fluid would leak out. Is it actually on the rubber boot that surrounds the cylinder with the pushrod throught it?
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yep, got it. There were two! not sure which one was for which pipe but think I may have got them right

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The rearmost pipe in the bellow (closest to the cylinder) is the leakback hose - connected to the reservoir.
The frontmost pipe is the bellow air vent pipe - with a dead end pushed into the subframe - to avoid dirt ingress.
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Thanks Anders. Memory not so good!
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