Random overheating issue
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Staging Lane
Joined: Feb 2003
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From: College Station, TX
Random overheating issue My car's recently started overheating occasionally. It only does it in the hot sun while I'm stopped in traffic. The temp will start to rise, and my low coolant light will come on. I've checked, and the radiator is topped off with fluid. The first time it got almost in the red, and I turned the heater on and the temp dropped down quick. It's been a week without overheating, and now it did it again today in traffic, luckily I got out of it and got back up to speed, and it dropped down to normal.
I tried to duplicate the problem once I got home... parked the car, left it running, as soon as the temp would get slightly above 210, the fan would kick on and it would go down... I couldn't get it to overheat again.
What could be causing these random overheatings? Is the fan for some reason sometimes not kicking on when it should?
I tried to duplicate the problem once I got home... parked the car, left it running, as soon as the temp would get slightly above 210, the fan would kick on and it would go down... I couldn't get it to overheat again.
What could be causing these random overheatings? Is the fan for some reason sometimes not kicking on when it should?
