MMAFIGHTER121
Dedicated LVC Member
ok, so every now and then my car will overheat - like almost pegged to the top of the temp gauge, i'll get my messages (check engine temp and the occassional engine power reduced) while its way up there i'll baby the engine of course, no accelerating hard or at all i f possible, turn the heat all the way on (real fun in the summer) it'll do it only for 2 or 3 minutes then it'll suddenly drop all the way back to normal. so maybe its a bubble in the system, maybe its a stuck thermostat, maybe its a screwy temperature reading thingy... but here's where it gets weird my coolant resevoir will slowly begin to look lower and lower and when it gets really low then it begins to overheat more often (naturally) so i've had to somewhat regularly add coolant but i have not seen any evidence of any coolant leaks anywhere in the engine at all since i've owned the car with ONE exception. Since the resevoir was low a few days ago I added coolant to it... the car was warmed up, i know you're not supposed to add it then, but i did. and i accidently added too much. Again, doesn't really bother me except then I took it out, came back and parked, and when i came out a few hours later to move it and there was a huge puddle of coolant under it. i checked the resevoir and it had kinda leveled to where it should be on the fill lines (dunno if it has some kinda of overflow function where extra coolant is dumped... sounds kinda weird to me) and the car has been running wonderfully ever since... no overheats or nothin.... but should the intermittent overheat return any idea whats causing all this?
