Water dripping/leaking from muffler???

[Hdang1980]

Forgive my ignorance, but is it normal to have water leaking/dripping from your muffler? Not even sure if it's the muffler. It's that round tubular thing that's located below the right rear passenger's seat. In the attached picture, you can still see where the water collects and then drips down to the ground.

I've never owned anything but ICE vehicles so maybe this is normal for Hybrids? It will start to drip drip drip as soon as I start the vehicle. I know this because last week I went to move my truck back into the garage after giving her a bath and noticed it. At first I thought it was from the wash, but then I noticed the trail of water this week when I moved it out and in again to clean the interior. I'm 99% sure it's just good ole H2O but still, one can never know, especially someone as mechanically un-inclined as me. Also, no climate control systems were on.

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[LM42]

Completely normal. Condensation will build in the exhaust and the muffler has a weep hole to allow it to exit without puddling in the exhaust

 

[bgn]

Yep. Normal.

 

[fossil]

what's it taste like?

 

[Hdang1980]

what's it taste like?

Water with a hint of sawdust, though the sawdust was probably from the last home project I was working on. lol

 

[canuckford]

Forgive my ignorance, but is it normal to have water leaking/dripping from your muffler? Not even sure if it's the muffler. It's that round tubular thing that's located below the right rear passenger's seat. In the attached picture, you can still see where the water collects and then drips down to the ground.

I've never owned anything but ICE vehicles so maybe this is normal for Hybrids? It will start to drip drip drip as soon as I start the vehicle. I know this because last week I went to move my truck back into the garage after giving her a bath and noticed it. At first I thought it was from the wash, but then I noticed the trail of water this week when I moved it out and in again to clean the interior. I'm 99% sure it's just good ole H2O but still, one can never know, especially someone as mechanically un-inclined as me. Also, no climate control systems were on.

If it's water coming out of the muffler tail pipe, that's a good sign, it means the engine is doing its job, and maybe you didn't notice it on your ICE car but yes it does happen.

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