Strange Over heating of a vehicle
It all started about two weeks ago when my heater stopped producing genuine heat, even after the car engine had heated up. So yesterday I turned on my car 5 minutes before leaving for work and turned on the heater hoping to give it enough time to warm the frigid inside. It didnt work and it still blew cold air.
On my way to work, for the first time since I got the car, the car's temperature reading started to climb past 1/2 way -quickly. I was in heavy traffic and inched my way off the freeway. To my surprise the temperature decreased when I got off the freeway. But as I took side streets to work the temperature reading continuously rose and fell. (played games with my emotions) I got to work OK and filled the anti-freeze when i got off work, but it acted up again that afternoon.
There didnt seem to be much reason to what made the temp fall or rise. (accelerating, braking, uphill, downhill.....slight increase when idle)
I did have the heater on, but im not sure if that had an effect considering it was blowing cold air.
side note: i was driving in 40-50 degree weather. ....i hope its just the thermometer
HELP!!!!
On my way to work, for the first time since I got the car, the car's temperature reading started to climb past 1/2 way -quickly. I was in heavy traffic and inched my way off the freeway. To my surprise the temperature decreased when I got off the freeway. But as I took side streets to work the temperature reading continuously rose and fell. (played games with my emotions) I got to work OK and filled the anti-freeze when i got off work, but it acted up again that afternoon.
There didnt seem to be much reason to what made the temp fall or rise. (accelerating, braking, uphill, downhill.....slight increase when idle)
I did have the heater on, but im not sure if that had an effect considering it was blowing cold air.
side note: i was driving in 40-50 degree weather. ....i hope its just the thermometer
HELP!!!!
Comments
Water pump. Almost certainly your pump died, and there's no heat exchange to the heater, nor to the radiator, which is why it's overheating.
Were you the guy who told the "gwanjeep" story?
Were you the guy who told the "gwanjeep" story?
Geez, that's a blast from the past, but yeah. Separate incident though. Water pump went a couple years ago in a NC summer. Went from cold to red zone in less than three minutes.
Geez, that's a blast from the past, but yeah. Separate incident though. Water pump went a couple years ago in a NC summer. Went from cold to red zone in less than three minutes.
Come Jan 2007, I will have been at AI in one form or another for 7 years. That's a long damn time.