87 4kq overheating

[Henry A Harper III]

What kind of mixture is your coolant? 50/50 water/antifreeze? Just guessing
here (but it's the only thing that makes sense to me, thermostat/clogged
heater core/radiator shouldn't do that), but it could be that you have too
much water, not enough antifreeze, and are experiencing some localized
frozen coolant in the heater core/radiator at those ~10deg temps...this
would be Very Not Good, a little colder and you would start popping freeze
plugs and other nasty things. I would check coolant mixture right away if
you don't know, there are little specific-gravity testers at FLAPS.

HTH
Henry Harper
http://www.henry-harper.com  hah at alumni.rice.edu
1991 200 quattro, 118k
1988 GTI 16v, 233k


On Friday, March 07, 2003 2:11 PM, b c [SMTP:crosbb79 at hotmail.com] wrote:
> The coolant in my car has been getting really hot in this cold weather.
> Some mornings when its less than 10 deg F out, I never get any heat
coming
> inside the car and the car overheats.
>
> On warmer days it's fine.  The heat blows hot air and everything.  Just
> looking for any ideas.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben Crosbie
>
> 1987 4kq
> 1987 5ktq
>
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