daugen
Epic Contributor
what a morning
started off fun, got my new creeper at Harbor Freight
and another one of their big red plastic buckets. Which of course made a handy
container for few odds and ends that just jumped right in there.
But on the way back, lights start flashing on dash and I peer at the dash
and it says 258 degrees. Oh boy, she's about to fizz.
And fizz she did.
lot of my brand new antifreeze all over the place.
thankfully I was off the road and engine off in 15 seconds.
it took two hours alongside route 263 this morning before tow truck finally came.
thankfully my brother came after an hour and I could get warm.
I sure would like to see the condition of the radiator drain plug. Have to wonder if they
didn't get it tight, and it leaked out. So cold out you don't see it for a while.
They brought it to me last night and left it in my driveway. Makes me wonder if that light was on then...
might be something simple like a thermostat or radiator cap. But annoying to get one half hour of use of this car before
it left me stranded on a cold day.
spent almost half an hour dickering with two different towing companies, everyone says they have jobs ahead of me, two hours, yada yada.
ok, that's when I called my brother, who called his friend Rob of Rob's Towing and that truck was here in 45 minutes. Only charged me 125, which
will get reimbursed at some point. I had gotten pretty cold sitting there, watching temp gauge as it got to 235 and I'd turn it off.
but that didn't produce much heat and it's in high 20's out. So by time my brother got there, my legs were pretty cold
excellent reason why us Northerners need blankets in cars.
thank goodness I have other car at home.
too much drama with this car, hope not bad omen.
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started off fun, got my new creeper at Harbor Freight
and another one of their big red plastic buckets. Which of course made a handy
container for few odds and ends that just jumped right in there.
But on the way back, lights start flashing on dash and I peer at the dash
and it says 258 degrees. Oh boy, she's about to fizz.
And fizz she did.
lot of my brand new antifreeze all over the place.
thankfully I was off the road and engine off in 15 seconds.
it took two hours alongside route 263 this morning before tow truck finally came.
thankfully my brother came after an hour and I could get warm.
I sure would like to see the condition of the radiator drain plug. Have to wonder if they
didn't get it tight, and it leaked out. So cold out you don't see it for a while.
They brought it to me last night and left it in my driveway. Makes me wonder if that light was on then...
might be something simple like a thermostat or radiator cap. But annoying to get one half hour of use of this car before
it left me stranded on a cold day.
spent almost half an hour dickering with two different towing companies, everyone says they have jobs ahead of me, two hours, yada yada.
ok, that's when I called my brother, who called his friend Rob of Rob's Towing and that truck was here in 45 minutes. Only charged me 125, which
will get reimbursed at some point. I had gotten pretty cold sitting there, watching temp gauge as it got to 235 and I'd turn it off.
but that didn't produce much heat and it's in high 20's out. So by time my brother got there, my legs were pretty cold
excellent reason why us Northerners need blankets in cars.
thank goodness I have other car at home.
too much drama with this car, hope not bad omen.
