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Hi everyone,
My car was low on coolant. So this weekend I tried to flush the cooling system and add new coolant.
I only did one flush, with distilled water only. The water came out dirty but still see through, not murky.
When I added the fresh coolant, I only got 3/4 of a gallon in before it started overflowing. The old coolant was green and the fresh coolant I added was orange. I drove the car that same day (Saturday) and the next day for errands around town – surface streets, no more that 15 miles at like 50 mph max.
Well this morning I drove to work – 30 mi, almost all freeway. And my car just overheated again. I was about halfway to work.
Can someone tell me what I did wrong or if there’s another problem at play here? Right now I’m waiting for the car to cool off enough for me to try and add the rest of the orange coolant. I’m thinking I didn’t put in enough.
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Thanks. I haven’t had a chance to try flushing the system again as I was on my way to work.
I made it to an auto zone after this post. I thought that even though the system needs a proper flushing, the overheating problem was from not having enough coolant. At the recommendation of the auto zone guy. I bought 100% coolant and then cut about half of that with water. He said that would work out to 50 50. I got to work another 5 miles after that with no problem.
I’m on the freeway to go home and the car overheated again! This timeand smelled smoke first, the temperature gage for the engine was at about the halfway point when I noticed the smell and started to see smoke. When I parked and turned the car off, there were large plumes of smoke for several minutes. That’s the worst I’ve ever seen it. I’m waiting for the car to cool….
I was going to add more coolant and water, But I’m not sure if that’s going to make it worse now? I’m worried that just pouring in more coolant is making thimgs worse now. And the coolants not leaking out I looked under the car….
Home is another 15 to 20 miles, all freeway. I can park it and work on it then I just don’t want to do major damage trying to get the car home….should I tow at this point?
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Well I looked under the car again while I was waiting and see a puddle. I think it’s from my car, the edge lines up with the drain plug in the bottom of the car. There was no puddle in the parking lot so the leaking started afrer I’d been driving the car a while.
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