Ok, let me start off by saying that the car is completely stock, except for an slp x and a borla cat back... I have owned my car for about a month now and I have noticed a slight leak coming from the upper radiator hose. At first I didn't know where the leak was coming from, but I would always notice a slight drip or two when the car would be turned off and cooled off. So I finally found where the leak was, the upper hose had a little rip where the coolant was leaking from.. 3 weeks went buy without me addressing this problem. I would notice a nice little puddle of coolant (about 6x6") everytime I would turn the car off and I would look underneath. Me, like a dumbass never fixed the problem and even worse, never even refilled the resorvior with the coolant that was getting lost everytime I turned off the car.. Before my almost overheating incident today, I did notice that the coolant level was well underneath the line on the resorvior, but decided I didnt have time too fill up
.. So today, on my way to work, immeditlay the service engine soon light came on.. Drove it all the way to work parked it, and went about my day.. after work, I started it to go home and everything was fine, except for the MIL on.. Half way home, and I notcied my car bogged down when I give it a little more throttle, and immediately thought that was kind of akward. I glance at my guages and bam, to my surprise the damn temperture guage was 3/4's down..The car was running hotter than usual. I immeditaely turned on the heater full blast, but that didn't work at all. The needle was still steady rising. I decided to pull over and turned off the car. I let it cool down and started it again since I was only like 3 mins away form my house.. I got home turned the car off and let it sit for about an hr and half.. When I finally got a chance to see where the coolant level was I noticed that there wasen't any coolant in the resorvior.. I filled it up to capacity, and started her up again and let her run for about 5 mins.. I noticed the needle rising again.. Although this time I didn't check the level, perhaps the coolant level dropped and it needed more? Or maybe it has another problem like a bad thermostat? Do you guys think the service engine MIL light has something to do with this? Maybe reading a low coolant level, or perhaps a bad part/such as thermostat.. another interesting note I forgot to mention, was that after a couple of mins of having the heater on while driving home so the car wouldn't overheat badly, the air coming from the vents got cold, like if I was almost running the AC? Why did this happen.? What's this a sign of? Low coolant level, or no coolant..? Or bad thermostat? what do you guys think? I know what I am doing next, replacing ripped rad. hose, and flushing out coolant and adding new.....Any input..?
.. So today, on my way to work, immeditlay the service engine soon light came on.. Drove it all the way to work parked it, and went about my day.. after work, I started it to go home and everything was fine, except for the MIL on.. Half way home, and I notcied my car bogged down when I give it a little more throttle, and immediately thought that was kind of akward. I glance at my guages and bam, to my surprise the damn temperture guage was 3/4's down..The car was running hotter than usual. I immeditaely turned on the heater full blast, but that didn't work at all. The needle was still steady rising. I decided to pull over and turned off the car. I let it cool down and started it again since I was only like 3 mins away form my house.. I got home turned the car off and let it sit for about an hr and half.. When I finally got a chance to see where the coolant level was I noticed that there wasen't any coolant in the resorvior.. I filled it up to capacity, and started her up again and let her run for about 5 mins.. I noticed the needle rising again.. Although this time I didn't check the level, perhaps the coolant level dropped and it needed more? Or maybe it has another problem like a bad thermostat? Do you guys think the service engine MIL light has something to do with this? Maybe reading a low coolant level, or perhaps a bad part/such as thermostat.. another interesting note I forgot to mention, was that after a couple of mins of having the heater on while driving home so the car wouldn't overheat badly, the air coming from the vents got cold, like if I was almost running the AC? Why did this happen.? What's this a sign of? Low coolant level, or no coolant..? Or bad thermostat? what do you guys think? I know what I am doing next, replacing ripped rad. hose, and flushing out coolant and adding new.....Any input..?
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