What the hell happened?!?! I get in my car to drive home and the check engine light is on. I call my dad...(yes, dennis, I called my dad) and he said to just try and drive home. So I did, even though this may not have been the smartest thing to do. I was thinking that maybe something was up with my heat, because the whole way home, it never kicked in. But as I was a block away from my house, my engine was about to over heat. What is going on?!?!?!

 

WHAT KIND OF ADD ONS DO YA HAVE ON THE TC THAT COULD OF CAUSED
THE PROBLEM!

 

all i got is a strut bar by hotchkis and a trd exhaust...

 

dont type it all caps, i'm sure you read it as one of the rules when you joined the site

i'm sorry this happened, make sure you have water in you radiator and then take it to the dealer

 

my dad will look at it tomorrow...but now i gotta drive chase to work. my 94 piece of crap grand am. :-(

 

Have you checked your engine coolant level. If you had no coolant that would explain the overheating, and your heater gets it's heat from the coolant and that would cause your check engine light to go on. Just a thought, hope all is well.

 

thanx...i'll tell my dad.

 

There is no water in the radiator...

 

then whats in there mr smartypants

 

everytime I read one of your post it makes you sound more stupid

some people use coolent some people use water, if you live in the south it doesn't matter

 

Actually, considering its a new car, it better have coolant. If it has water in the radiator, then def take it back, somethings wrong.

 

a lot of sytems have water in them as well, but it depends on where you live climatically. when i flush mine here in OK or TX, about half to 3 quarters rad. fluid, the rest water. but anyways. there's a TSB on the check engine light flashing, however an overheating car doesn't really sound like thats the problem. suggestions have been offered. either no/not enough fluid or perhaps the thermostat is faulty, in whatever case good luck.

 

ohh see yall. what now!?!

 

50%/50% mixture of coolant and water. NOT all water, unless you're stranded somewhere and it's all you can get your hands on, and in that case, only until you can get to a gas station.

 

Maybe ur cars overheating. If i was called Tova I would want to over heat on your ___ as well. Your car Chase is gonna overheat next week. Naming cars thats weird.

 

we use rad fluid because of the weather... due to it's chemical properties it doesn't allow the cooling mixture to freeze or boil as easily as water alone would... however having too much rad fluid could cause early deteriotation of your radiator and or cooling lines... having too much water could cause you to have insufficient cooling in extrememely cold or extrememely hot weather. an ideal mix is 50/50 water/antifreeze... more water in certain milder climates should be okay... in the northeast you should be running close to 50/50 though...

BTW how's tova doing?


edit: oops should've read the last couple of posts...

 

And implying that cars have free will isn't weird? _______.

 

hahahaha........sorry to hear about this, hope all works out, im sure its something small

 

i'm a girl. first of all. and second, i know tons of people who name their cars. so stop hating.

for those of you who care, she is now being serviced at toyota. i should know what's going on tomorrow.

 

good! whatever it is they will take care of!