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Old 03-22-2017, 02:46 PM
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My car Just recently like a couple days ago would smoke when not moving and i thought it was just coolant splashing on the engine block, then it would over heat when parked then when i drove it would cool back down and then this morning on the way to work the gauges and radio stopped working
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If its overheating while parked...most likely your fans are not working properly.

I can tell you that gauges flipping out.....one certain cause of that is a loose or a disconnected spark plug wire. So check all of them.

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Possibly cracked the connector and the sensor for the coolant temperature gauge. It's a copper brass screw in sensor on the drivers side above the #1 spark plug. Common to brake one doing a plug change.

Take it to a mechanic immediately and stop driving it if it is smoking and over heating



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