Okay, so we're driving home last night and the temp needle shoots up into the red, get home, it was only about 2 miles and needle was just below red, and I check the fluid level on the radiator and it's dry. So I figure I'll fill it up with water to limp it in to the garage in the morning, and it starts pouring out of a hole on the top left side of the radiator. Had the car towed in to the garage in the morning and they replaced the sensor/plug? and filled her full of fluid and all seems better.
Question: does this kind of stuff happen much or was this sort of a freak of nature, and is there anything else I should be looking out for that could have caused this to happen, and/or do you think we did any major damage to the car. The engine bay didn't seem that overly hot when we got home that night.
thanks,
--k
p.s. and to add to my bad luck, we got a flat the day before...:(
'92 volvo 240gl, 165,000 miles...
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