Overheating, Mabye
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Overheating, Mabye
I have a few questions regaurding my friends 92 RS. Her car has been having an overheating issue the past few weeks. I checked her coolant level and found that it was full to the brim, where as the marker show you should only fill the tank about 1/4 the way up. Could this cause a leak on the passanger side and for the car to overheat?
Also I removed the excess water/coolant and ran the car. Now the temp gauge freaks out. It will go into the red after 2 mins of driving, but them if you turn the car off and back on the temp reads like 160. I tried to continue driving in the red and the needle shot clear to the other side to about 180. If I keep driving it the needle will jump constantly from 260 to about 200. Sometimes it remains around 200 and 220.
Just to let you know, this is stop and go trafic. Speeds below 45. On the highway it stay around 200, until you hit a stop light then it starts to rise until you start going again.
I don't want her to ruin the car by driving it this way, but I can't figure out why it is overheating, or so it seems to be.
One thing I forgot to mention. The damn hood takes forever to open. Is there trick to it? I heard the smacking it in a certain spot works, but what spot is that.
Luckybob
Also I removed the excess water/coolant and ran the car. Now the temp gauge freaks out. It will go into the red after 2 mins of driving, but them if you turn the car off and back on the temp reads like 160. I tried to continue driving in the red and the needle shot clear to the other side to about 180. If I keep driving it the needle will jump constantly from 260 to about 200. Sometimes it remains around 200 and 220.
Just to let you know, this is stop and go trafic. Speeds below 45. On the highway it stay around 200, until you hit a stop light then it starts to rise until you start going again.
I don't want her to ruin the car by driving it this way, but I can't figure out why it is overheating, or so it seems to be.
One thing I forgot to mention. The damn hood takes forever to open. Is there trick to it? I heard the smacking it in a certain spot works, but what spot is that.
Luckybob
Last edited by luckybob; Sep 9, 2003 at 12:48 PM.
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Sounds like a faulty temp sensor. Is the car throwing any codes? Might be reading bad but not bad enough to throw a code.
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You need to go back out and fill up the tank to where it was before. My car used to do this until i wired in a fan switch. Whats happeneing is hot water from the cooling system is getting forced into the tank shortly after you shut the car off and it;s filling up the tank and leaking from the cao...thats where the leaking is coming from. Something somewhere isn't cycling properly. I nwever really looked anymore into it cause like I said, after I installed the hard-wired fan switch, it fixed itself.
Also, the temp gauges on our cars pretty much suck. You need to find local shop that has a laser temp reader and drop in there once the car is warmed up so he can check the temp and compare it to what the gauge is reading.....
Also, the temp gauges on our cars pretty much suck. You need to find local shop that has a laser temp reader and drop in there once the car is warmed up so he can check the temp and compare it to what the gauge is reading.....
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