I’m not a car guy. I want to be. I’m learning. I learn by making friends with mechanics and absorbing their information. I had a car a few months ago with some overheating issues. (Got it resolved. No water in my coolant at all, using straight concentrate in a brand new, empty radiator, like a dingus. 🤦🏼‍♂️) But before I fixed it, someone said it might have been the thermostat. I asked a mechanic friend of mine about it. (I haven’t known him long.) He told me he’s been a mechanic for right around a decade and has NEVER seen a thermostat issue cause overheating. Is he just totally out of touch? Or did I misunderstand how the cooling system of a vehicle works? Let me know.

  • Legal_Wrapsack@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Stuck open, stuck closed, and a failure to properly bleed the coolant system, bad radiator, bad water pump, and a coolant leak is the only way is know overheating problems occur

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      1 year ago

      Do you count blown head gasket as coolant leak? Is a bad radiator fan or fan clutch looped into bad radiator? What about a clogged radiator? Not the water side, but with leaves and shit? Or how about bad radiator cap not letting the system pressurize?

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        1 year ago

        Yes bad radiator includes all the radiator cooling components clogged etc. in my book, blown gasket you’ll be blowing white smoke, bad cap included