Overheating can be caused by several things.
Many of us are parents and feel your pain! Come back here and brag about how you fixed it.You should always use a proper mixture (and Home Depot Prestone is probably fine). Tap water is not good for the cooling system. Go to the shop and have them flush the coolant.Buy the replacement cap for about $20 USD.My suspicion is that you'll hear exactly what I do: hissing right at the radiator cap. What should you do? Get the car hot, open the hood and then listen carefully in various places over the engine (obviously it's hot, so watch out under there). So, what does this tell me? I'm almost certainly losing pressure somewhere in the system which, due to the ideal gas law, allows the coolant to reach boiling point even though the car isn't overheating. I smelled coolant, looked under the hood and saw this:Įven with new coolant, I noticed that it was boiling out of the overflow pipe. Tl dr: this might be as simple as a bad radiator cap.įunnily enough, I am currently experiencing similar issues with my (completely different) car. I am so over not knowing if I will be able to get my kids to school. The mechanic that did the work said the water was really nasty in the pump. I drove it home and it was boiling again. After it cooled off it needed 4 large cups of water. This morning I drove it 15 miles and when I turned it off, I heard the boiling sound. I picked it up from the shop and drove maybe 50 miles that evening and it was fine. They had the car running for 2 hours and it was fine. The price was crazy so I took it to another well known shop. The next day I took it to shop and was told that the water pump was going bad, the hose need changing, and the timing belt. It started to stutter and had a loss of power. Five miles down the road it started overheating bad. Went back 3 hours later and it start right up. I left it sit in the grocery store parking lot. A few days ago out of the blue my car cut off on its own and I was unable to start it for a few hours.
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