I was driving up to my brothers house today in the mountains, while going through a canyon I was following a car in front of me, he started to accelerate through a few turns so I took the opportunity to jump on the throttle as well since he was moving at a decent rate.
I accelerated through about 4 turns or so going about 50-60 mph when all of a sudden the car cut power, I thought for a second that the TCS kicked on and cut the throttle because of slippage which I thought was weird because I wasn't really going that fast. My reaction was to reach up and turn off the TCS when I noticed that the temp gauge was pegged at H! my heart sank into my stomach as I pulled of the road immediately and turned off the car. I jumped out and lifted the hatch and everything was smoking and reeked of antifreeze coolant as it was all over my bumper!
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As you can see one of the hoses split right open and there went everything! I'm concerned that I did damage to the head? What are the steps I should take to make sure that I didn't warp the head?? I'm going to call the dealership on Monday to get a quote.
My next step is to replace all 23 coolant hoses as I'm assuming they are all originals (23 yrs old). I can't complain that they lasted that long but unfortunately it blew in a inopportune time and left me stranded with my daughter waiting for a tow truck for 3 1/2 hours to tow us back to my house. I know I should've replaced the hoses when I bought the car, but lesson learned unfortunately:frown:.
What do you guys think?
Thx
I accelerated through about 4 turns or so going about 50-60 mph when all of a sudden the car cut power, I thought for a second that the TCS kicked on and cut the throttle because of slippage which I thought was weird because I wasn't really going that fast. My reaction was to reach up and turn off the TCS when I noticed that the temp gauge was pegged at H! my heart sank into my stomach as I pulled of the road immediately and turned off the car. I jumped out and lifted the hatch and everything was smoking and reeked of antifreeze coolant as it was all over my bumper!
Pic Here:
As you can see one of the hoses split right open and there went everything! I'm concerned that I did damage to the head? What are the steps I should take to make sure that I didn't warp the head?? I'm going to call the dealership on Monday to get a quote.
My next step is to replace all 23 coolant hoses as I'm assuming they are all originals (23 yrs old). I can't complain that they lasted that long but unfortunately it blew in a inopportune time and left me stranded with my daughter waiting for a tow truck for 3 1/2 hours to tow us back to my house. I know I should've replaced the hoses when I bought the car, but lesson learned unfortunately:frown:.
What do you guys think?
Thx