[s-cars] catastrophic coolant loss

[James Bowes]

I had the exact same failure on my 95.5 S6 a few months ago. I limped to a 
friend's place about 1/4 mile away. That's the T-fitting where there's a 
temperature sensor. Since after the break the temp sensor wasn't seeing hot 
liquid (there WAS no hot liquid) it didn't read as HOT. Same problem is 
really common on Porsche 928's.

Best of luck to ya.. my car didn't have any ill effects, at least not that I 
could see. The only real problem I could see is that you would overheat 
quickly without the coolant, but at least it's not as serious as a loss of 
oil pressure or anything.


James Bowes

Nashville, TN

(615) 833-6196 home
(317) 507-2329 cell




>From: james McCarthy <jjssmccarthy at yahoo.com>
>To: s-car-list at audifans.com
>Subject: [s-cars] catastrophic coolant loss Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:39:05 
>-0800 (PST)
>
>hey all,
>My wifes 95.5 s6 avant suffered a massive coolant loss
>today.
>Symptoms:
>Curiously the first warning was a check engine light
>followed by the low coolant symbol (which went on/off)
>-  there wasn't a good place to pullover so she had to
>drive aprox 3 miles - the coolent temp and oil temp
>never moved from their normal positions.. The car
>stalled once at idle (500 ft before she pulled over).
>The problem turned out to be...
>The plastic T fitting (has a plug in it) behind the
>block in the lower heater core hose (in the engine
>bay).  It snapped  - picture all the coolant dumping
>at once...
>Neither of the local dealers stock it so I plan to
>bypass it in the am - will also do an oil change.
>I guess I concerned as I don't really know how hot the
>engine got? - the guages were normal - but if there
>was insufficient coolant how accurate is it?
>Anything else I should look at? or replace?
>TIA
>jamie
>
>95.5 s6 avant - hers - limping at the monent
>95.5 s6 sedan - his
>
>
>
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