jzchen
Enlightened
My wife leased a new '17 Giulia back in December. I found it strange that after carefully adjusting tire pressures like I usually do that the front left tire would increase using the TPMS display, as compared to the front right. I looked in the engine compartment and saw the turbo near the left front strut tower, and surmised that it was heating things up. Then yesterday I started checking the fluid levels. Coolant reservoir was a little high, so I siphoned some off. Then I saw that the brake fluid was overfull up to the base of the filler neck. I searched online possible consequences and found that it's possible that with heat and thermal expansion it could press the pads against the rotors, and made the connection that overfull brake fluid might be heating the front left up. (Front left is the shortest line from master cylinder to a caliper, which would make sense that it would start there/less fluid to heat up). I started to siphon it out, but due to internal baffles and new brake fluid I can not see the level well. I used an LED flashlight to shine upon the reservoir and still had difficulty seeing where it's at. It looks like some chambers are still completely full while the area I'm able to siphon is just under maximum now. Then it dawned on me, that the LED might be limiting my ability to see. (To be honest I don't even know what CCT/CRI and all those acronyms mean, but I'd like to get this resolved if I can on my own. I guess I could help her take it back to the dealer she got it from, but the one technician that they have for the Alfa Romeos is probably the one responsible for it being overfull). So, is there a non-LED flashlight, somewhat small, that I can readily get, (maybe at a local Walmart for example), that will help me illuminate it better? Most flashlights available now are LEDs....
Thank you so much for all the help over the years, and for reading this!
Thank you so much for all the help over the years, and for reading this!
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