What not to do if your car is overheating..

[02SE]

This is not my video. But it does make me glad I no longer have to deal with repairing daily driver customer cars.

Apparently the customer filled the crankcase with water..

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[KidVermicious]

What a maroon.

 

[bofa]

:lol: There should be a surcharge for stupidity.

 

[LittleCaesar]

I am going to say that looks like a Honda Honeywell filter. If it was a 90s Honda, do a flush or two, then fill it up and go.

Similar story:

I and some friends were heading north on I-95 back in 1998. BMW 735 comes flying by us at about 90. We get off at the next exit and head to the nearest quickie mart. And there in the corner is the driver of the BMW with the hood open and a gallon of Prestone's finest. The guy is proceeding to pour the coolant all over the engine and everything else.

We run up to the guy, trying to explain to him this isn't how a car's cooling system works. But he is emphatic on believing he is doing the right thing; he told us he was an engineer at Lockheed and did not need any aid. So we walked away. My cell phone at the time was a flip one and had no video recording capability.

We had friends following us about three hours behind us but it took them an additional four to get to DC. Apparently there had been a BMW that caught on fire along the side of the road that snarled up traffic.....

 

[Ol'Blue]

Oh this crap happens all the time. Now I have not seen one this bad but still happens allot when head gaskets blow. I had a customer who had a 95 chevy pickup. 350 in it. The head gasket was so blown out every cyl was almost full of coolant. He just kept adding water in the thing and wanted to know why it would not stop over heating and running so bad. Well after a head gasket job. Machine shop work and cases of oil we finally got it cleaned out. I have no idea how he didn't smoke the bearings on the crank but he didn't. Truck still runs good to this day. Not kidding probley used 30 qts. Of oil to make sure no more water was in the block. Lol.....

 

[BlackWorksInc]

:lol: There should be a surcharge for stupidity.

Man... I wish...

I am going to say that looks like a Honda Honeywell filter. If it was a 90s Honda, do a flush or two, then fill it up and go.

Similar story:

I and some friends were heading north on I-95 back in 1998. BMW 735 comes flying by us at about 90. We get off at the next exit and head to the nearest quickie mart. And there in the corner is the driver of the BMW with the hood open and a gallon of Prestone's finest. The guy is proceeding to pour the coolant all over the engine and everything else.

We run up to the guy, trying to explain to him this isn't how a car's cooling system works. But he is emphatic on believing he is doing the right thing; he told us he was an engineer at Lockheed and did not need any aid. So we walked away. My cell phone at the time was a flip one and had no video recording capability.

We had friends following us about three hours behind us but it took them an additional four to get to DC. Apparently there had been a BMW that caught on fire along the side of the road that snarled up traffic.....

Well... he was an Engineer! [MENTION=66316]1engineer[/MENTION] ound: (j/k)

But yeah, that sounds about right after all it was a BMW, I'm not surprised to hear it caught on fire (even if it had a little help from the BMW owner.)

 

[AudiTech]

I've gotten a 2.5l VW Beetle towed in because it stalled out. A hose chaffed and it dumped coolant, now mind you there is a coolant warning light that comes on when then fluid level is still safe but it's low. They kept driving and driving and driving. It got so hot the plastic baffle setup in the oil pan melted down and got sucked up into and clogged the oil pick up tube. Now they have a coolant light flashing, a warning telling you to stop the engine, it's overheating, and the oil pressure warning is on... and they still just kept driving until the until the engine stalled.

 

[LittleCaesar]

Man... I wish...



Well... he was an Engineer! [MENTION=66316]1engineer[/MENTION] ound: (j/k)

But yeah, that sounds about right after all it was a BMW, I'm not surprised to hear it caught on fire (even if it had a little help from the BMW owner.)

I can still see it as vividly today as it was when I was 18. It looked like someone dumping gas onto a fire.

I have witnessed more than once people hand tighten lugs, then lower the car and not tighten them up more, for they just plain forgot to. Serious front end damage occurred down the road.

I did have a girlfriend once who, when I first met her, was still driving her 1997 Civic on the factory fill at 52,000 + miles. When I drained the oil, only about 15oz came out. She sold the car at 115,000 miles with no real issues to speak of. I guess 4000 mile oil changes on GTX worked well enough.