Re: Car cooked!!! HELP!!! long!!!

["Randy B" <sirocco@telocity.com>]

Tobias, Duuuuude, tell me you didn't put Ice cold water into a non-running
hot engine and then start it up!!!!!!!!!
Even if it's been sitting for 10 min you risk cracking the head or other
*major* problems.
Remember what happens when you take a hot glass out of the dishwasher and
fill it up with cold water......hopefully I'm not the only one who has done
this :D

My guess is that your radiator fan didn't come on while you were in traffic
(short, bad connection, etc..) and when you were topping off your coolant it
mysteriously started working again.

Check all the connections that are related to this.
Clean em, etc.. and you will probably keep this from happening in the
future.

Don't forget that when you are overheating you can also:
1. Turn the heater on full blast to use the heater core as an extra radiator
(assuming you have coolant in the engine)
2. Put the heater controls on Defrost (will turn on the radiator fan for
most cars).
3. Turn on the Air conditioning (also will turn on the radiator fan for most
cars).

HTH.

Randy
PS Always add water/coolant to a running motor when hot, or wait till cold
(couple hours) and add.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Tobias M-G" <scirocco16v88@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 8:42 PM
Subject: Car cooked!!! HELP!!! long!!!


>
> Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
>
> Yesterday's little problem turned into a tire kicking, steering wheel
> pounding, mad raving, Scirocco bashing charade today.
>
> Driving home from work, the car idles high in neutral, has been for a few
> days now, this afternoon it stayed at a constant 1400 RPM and wouldn't
come
> down. I ignore this for the time being, thinking that it's probably the
> stupid battery like Shawn said, that it's draining/ed and the alternator
has
> to compensate and the gauges are all a little wacky too because of it.
>
> So there I am, stop and go traffic on the 880, when the little warning
light
> on the temp gauge goes on, which is all the way to the right I realize.
> ERRRR. Look at the oil gauge - 260. ERRRR <GULP>. Look to the hood
> confuddled... puff puff puff out of the left side. ERRRR SCHEISSE!!. Hang
a
> quick right and exit on 237, round two corners and park the car. Now I get
> the fog machine effect going on the side of the hood. ERRRRR. This sh*t
> don't look good. Pop the hood, coolant leaking out under driver side
fender.
> "I drive this car why?" Wait .. wait longer, wait much longer .. wait 45
> minutes, watch car cool down, watch coolant level disappear. An hour later
I
> decide it's cool enough, about 1/4, to head to the gas station across the
> road to get coolant. 2 minutes ... one right turn, one left, one right,
and
> the gauge is screaming to the top again.
>
> Pull into the station, turn off car, fan stays quiet ..hmmmmm. Get coolant
> .. takes 5 minutes. Come back, slowly pop lid off the coolant reservoir -
> this sh*ts under so much pressure every 1/4 turn sends the level shooting
> up. Finally get it open. Fan turns on??? HUH? No key in the ignition,
car's
> been sitting there for over 10 minutes now. Stupid c...... @$!$^&*. Fill
the
> coolant back up, start the car, and observe idle, coolant level, temp
gauge,
> noises etc for 15 minutes. Nothing happens, everything A-OK - if the car
had
> a face it'd be grinning at me daftly (British for stupid if my memory
serves
> me right, been a few years since I lived there .. but I digress) in a sort
> of "How the F#&^ should I know what's going on under the hood" manner.
>
> I say, screw this, have to get home before it gets dark so I don't have to
> use the lights and strain the electrical system (if the battery is really
> the culprit). Drive 20 miles, and not a peep from the car - it's cooler
out
> now yes, but nothing, NOTHING .. like I had some damn bad daydream or
> something. Get home, idle is a little high, about 1000-1200, but car stays
> cool until I park it and turn it off.
>
> All in all I lost over half a gallon of coolant, almost 2 hours, many
> nerves, and all so that I can sit here and shoot ??????????? to the list
> because I haven't got a friggin clue what just happened. Still just a
faulty
> battery or what? Woulnd't be the distributor .. na, no way. The cooling
> system is fairly new .. 4 months old.
>
> What's up, what is up??? <Sigh> <--- a collective one from the entire
group
> I'm sure cuz we all deal with this kinda stuff. Join the club eh? hehe.
>
>
> It's not the Scirocco! It's the guts of the car, that's what it is. Stupid
> engine, stupid fuel pumps and relays and wiring and so on. The Scirocco
> itself is only an unwilling shell for this stuff. VW should pay for
> emotional distress for people like us!
>
> Oh yeah, what do I need to fix here?
>
> Tobias
> - Unlike TBerk who hadn't touched a drop the last time I checked, I am
> grabbing a bottle with each hand now!!!
>
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