Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Car trouble

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 5
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous 1 2 3 4 5 template Next
  • #1

    Car trouble

    Yesterday I realised that my car was on the verge of overheating. I checked under the hood and sure enough the engine coolant level was low/nonexistent. Put some in, ran the car, no obvious leaks. Today I left the house and drove my car to work (~5 miles away). When I got there I decided to check the coolant level. Low again. So, I think, I have a leak for sure. Fill up the engine coolant again, and decide to drive the car to a garage near my house (so I can walk back and forth to the garage). Run the heater at full blast to help out as best I can. Halfway there, my car starts to overheat really bad (engine starting to whine). I pull over, refill the coolant, start the engine with the hood popped. Now there's a ****ing jet of coolant coming from the radiator itself. No ****ing way I can safely drive it even the 2 miles left to the garage, so I have to ****ing call for a tow. Left my car parked at the garage (closed on weekends, of course) with a note explaining the situation and containing my cell number and a promise to drop by Monday morning so they don't tow my ass.

    What are the chances that the mother****ers at the garage will be able to simply patch the radiator? If they can't, what will parts and labour on a rebuilt radiator run to? '92 Toyota Camry, 180000 miles...
    12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
    Stadtluft Macht Frei
    Killing it is the new killing it
    Ultima Ratio Regum
    Tags: None
  • #2
    About 100 bucks to recore it.
    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

    Comment

    • #3
      Sweet. If that's all it is, I'm going to be happy...
      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
      Stadtluft Macht Frei
      Killing it is the new killing it
      Ultima Ratio Regum

      Comment

      • #4
        If you can find some Berryman's sealant, that might work.
        Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
        "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
        He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

        Comment

        • #5
          That blows. At least you were on the way to the garage and not, like, Mexico. As far as I'm aware, patching a radiator isn't a difficult thing, so its not going to be that expensive. A friend of mine even knew how to do it himself.

          I've been wrong once before, however.
          "I predict your ignore will rival Ben's" - Ecofarm
          ^ The Poly equivalent of:
          "I hope you can see this 'cause I'm [flipping you off] as hard as I can" - Ignignokt the Mooninite

          Comment

          • #6
            Well, you are doomed - no mater what you do, your car will break down in a dark area. Soon some "nice guy" that has specialized in killing women with broken coolers will pass by and pick you up.

            R.I.P.
            With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

            Steven Weinberg

            Comment

            • #7
              Toyota? You should have gone for German

              Comment

              • #8
                It could be a hole in the radiator. When that happened to me, a radiator sealant worked wonders. BTY: When you later flush our your radiator, you'll wash away the sealant, so be sure to replace it.

                Now for the really bad news: Your coolant might have boiled off because your thermostat when kablooie. I tried to make it to the next down with a frizzy thermostat and blew my head gasket. That cost me several hundred bucks I didn't have...a couple of decades ago when things were cheap.

                Comment

                • #9
                  Originally posted by Zkribbler
                  It could be a hole in the radiator. When that happened to me, a radiator sealant worked wonders. BTY: When you later flush our your radiator, you'll wash away the sealant, so be sure to replace it.

                  Now for the really bad news: Your coolant might have boiled off because your thermostat when kablooie. I tried to make it to the next down with a frizzy thermostat and blew my head gasket. That cost me several hundred bucks I didn't have...a couple of decades ago when things were cheap.
                  ?

                  1) I know there's a hole in my radiator. That's where I saw the jet of fluid coming from

                  2) I didn't blow anything obvious. The radiator was pissing fluid, but it wasn't spraying out of anywhere else. I think I managed to save the engine because I stopped when things started to go south. And the last I checked my engine managed to catch (drove it off the tow bed and into a parking space)
                  12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                  Stadtluft Macht Frei
                  Killing it is the new killing it
                  Ultima Ratio Regum

                  Comment

                  • #10
                    Thermostat is an easy fix though.
                    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

                    Comment

                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Ecthy
                      Toyota? You should have gone for German
                      You're right. 14 year-old German cars never break down.



                      (first problem I've had in 2 years of driving the beast)
                      12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                      Stadtluft Macht Frei
                      Killing it is the new killing it
                      Ultima Ratio Regum

                      Comment

                      • #12
                        Oh, that's not good. Your troubles sound very similar to my own when I had my head gasket go out.

                        What they did was test the radiator with oil to see if it could actually seal properly. It failed.
                        Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
                        "Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
                        2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!

                        Comment

                        • #13
                          Originally posted by SlowwHand
                          Thermostat is an easy fix though.
                          Thermostat was still all right I think.

                          Was giving me a reasonable measurement the last I saw.

                          I really didn't drive very long with my car in the red. 20-30 seconds.
                          12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
                          Stadtluft Macht Frei
                          Killing it is the new killing it
                          Ultima Ratio Regum

                          Comment

                          • #14
                            The way you handled this was ****ing amateur hour

                            drive the damn thing until it explodes, and get her to do anal

                            now drop and give me 20

                            Comment

                            • #15
                              I see the therapist hasn't made great strides.
                              Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                              "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                              He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

                              Comment

                              Previous 1 2 3 4 5 template Next
                              Working...
                              X