I broke the bottom off of the extra coolant tank on my '00 Chevy Metro. It's snowing here right now, so I'm not too worried about overheating, and I've just been driving with the heater full blast to pull any extra heat out of the engine. I have the replacement part already, but I just haven't had time to put it in myself.
Will I risk permanently damaging the car by driving it in this condition?
2007-01-31 03:57:59 · 7 answers · asked by Mike 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
The car needs to have an overflow bottle, but only to catch the excess boil over. That boil over is eventually pulled back into the radiator as it cools down. Over a long period of time, losing the excess water will make your radiator coolant low and will need to be refilled. Otherwise, don't worry about short term effects. GOOD LUCK!
2007-01-31 04:05:47 · answer #1 · answered by gin and juice 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maximum probably reason is a foul head gasket or a cracked head. The engine quite sucks the coolant into the cylinder and burns it with the gas. Thats why you do not see any seen leaks. severe white smoke on the exhaust is one signal of this or severe water dripping from the tail pipe. If the leak is sluggish adequate it is going to easily use all the coolant with out seen indications to go back across it. besides a head gasket should be very expensive to fix reckoning on the motorcar. you may anticipate to pay everywhere from $500 - $1500 purely to substitute the gasket and if the proper is cracked I propose paying for for yet another automobile, the restore value can be better than the motorcar is easily worth.
2016-12-03 06:57:21 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you need it on there bad,it also give the car extra coolant when its needed and it also catches the extra coolant when the car builds up pressure and needs to store it in the tank,without the tank its going to run hot on it ,and the extra coolant will just blow out of it all over everything,but it has to be there,good luck with it.
2007-01-31 04:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by dodge man 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You have to refill the coolant every day.
2007-01-31 04:03:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could have installed it in the time you typed this question. Just put the thing in.
2007-01-31 10:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
installing the new part takes about 5 min. Just do it.
2007-01-31 04:11:59 · answer #6 · answered by Me 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
dodgeman is an idiot
2007-01-31 14:14:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋