Renault Clio 1995

[eternal_burnout]

Hello all

A newbie here
I have renault clio 1995 RT and i don't where to put what fluid as it the caps on the fluid reservoirs either don't say anything at all or even if they do, its in flippin french!!!
now, there's a reservoir sitting about a 20 inches left of the battery. its a big round sump and contains some kind of oily fluid (not very dense though). Now can anyone kindly tell me what that is, as its running very low now and i need to top it up before it does something nasty.
Im sorry but thats all the information i could give right now. If there's any question that you'd like me to find out, please shoot!

cheers

[5lab]

whats it made of. plastic? clear? either gonna be your windscreen resovoir or coolant. trace the pipes from it - if they go to the radiator then fill with coolant, if to the screen then with screenwash

[eternal_burnout]

its not fully clear but u can partially see inside it..It's not the washer liquid as washer liquid is placed in a bay behind the batter inside a grill cover. so its defo not the coolant.
Any other ideas would be really appreciated.

Cheers

[Ant]

I had one a few years ago, and remember the radiator coolant bottle being round. (You can tell I'm no mechanic!) Like you said, the washer fluid is under a flap by the windscreen, so definitely can't be that.

Have you checked the manual? Unfortunately I have leant my Haynes manual to someone so can't check. I guess you could post a picture of your engine bay, which may help too us try identify it.

Where's Lowe?

[Lowe]

Here

Alas it's been a few years since I was under the bonnet of an RT so without a picture I'm not definately going to say what's what.

Go fire up a digicam and take a shot of the bay and I'll tell you what's what.

[5lab]

angon, why is it not coolant??

other option is pas fluid, really..

[eternal_burnout]

thanks once again guys

I tend to agree wid 5lab...i also think its the PAS liquid..I'm gonna take a pic of the engine bay and post it here...then you guys wud have a better idear of wat it actually is..

thanks once again for your help guys...appreciated

[doll]

Its the expansion bottle. Its in the same place on all Mk1 clio's.

[Lowe]

It does sound like the coolant expansion bottle as Doll says, but until I see a pic I'm not saying put coolant in it.