Leaking something pink and oily----2k a4 1.8

The dye for finding AC leaks is usually red. Combine that with AC compressor oil and it sounds like your problem. If they haven't found the leak yet tell them to look at the compressor and its connections.

If you have lost that much oil > Ok, help. Something pink and oily feeling leaking down the engine

Tony said something like:

Excellent! At least it's a start!

I was told that the dye was something that only showed up under ultraviolet light. No?

That's G12 coolant. Feels very "slippery" and leaves pink crusts when it dries.

Rgds

Alec said something like:

I don't think that's it, or at least *all* of it. I tested the coolant mixture right away with a different finger and it feels more like water does. The thing I'm talking about feels like a pink colored motor oil.

If it is coolant, then I need to know where the oily feel comes from: perhaps it's because it dripped onto that plastic skid-pad thing first and hit the residual oil there before dripping down to the pavement. Or perhaps it picked up the oil from whatever it hit on the way down.

Try burning some of what you found on the top of the underbody tray...

If it isn't anything that's been suggested already then check your engine mountings. I seem to remember that they are full of some kind of pink-ish gunk & they are not imune from splitting.

I.

Thomas G. Marshall said something like:

Ok, for the record, it turns out that the oily feel to it was a red herring. The radiator actually had a leak in it, so I replaced it. Whether or not this was exacerbated by a test drive is anyone's guess, but as with everything car related in my life, it is likely to be a bizarre fluke.