Overheating on the motorway
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Had to laugh. Just been onto facebook and seen my mates status as
"wants to cry...my cars headgasget blew which is about £500.00, and it went as I was doing 60 on the motorway and I nearly had a SERIOUS accident :'("
Now...I questioned this:
"Ryan B What made you nearly have the serious accident?"
wondering how could a head gasket going give you a serious accident?
She replied with
"I nearly had a bad crash cus smoke covered my windscreen and I cudnt see and I tried to pull over and a lorry nearly went into me!!!! "
So you're driving down the motorway doing 60, you don't even notice that your engine is overheating (which it must have been for a long time to be getting steam covering the windscreen)
and then when you pull over you nearly hit a lorry and say it's the lorry drivers fault?
I just told her she should be done for driving without due care for not even noticing her car was overheating! Surely everyone checks their temp gauge periodically when they are driving? Or is that just me?
EDIT - just asked her when she last checked her oil and water level, her answer = never. (she's owned the car almost 3 years since she passed her test)
My point is, I think basic car maintenance should be included in the driving test. Or again is that just me? Surely these type of people need to know more than just to how to a drive a car but also how to look after it properly too?
"wants to cry...my cars headgasget blew which is about £500.00, and it went as I was doing 60 on the motorway and I nearly had a SERIOUS accident :'("
Now...I questioned this:
"Ryan B What made you nearly have the serious accident?"
wondering how could a head gasket going give you a serious accident?
She replied with
"I nearly had a bad crash cus smoke covered my windscreen and I cudnt see and I tried to pull over and a lorry nearly went into me!!!! "
So you're driving down the motorway doing 60, you don't even notice that your engine is overheating (which it must have been for a long time to be getting steam covering the windscreen)
and then when you pull over you nearly hit a lorry and say it's the lorry drivers fault?I just told her she should be done for driving without due care for not even noticing her car was overheating! Surely everyone checks their temp gauge periodically when they are driving? Or is that just me?
EDIT - just asked her when she last checked her oil and water level, her answer = never. (she's owned the car almost 3 years since she passed her test)
My point is, I think basic car maintenance should be included in the driving test. Or again is that just me? Surely these type of people need to know more than just to how to a drive a car but also how to look after it properly too?
Edited by Ry_B on Thursday 17th June 18:02
To be fair, the radiator could have failed catastrophically, which would have caused the windscreen to be blocked by steam and wouldn't have been predictable.
That would be very unlikely to result in the head gasket going though, unless she left it idling on the hard shoulder afterwards
That would be very unlikely to result in the head gasket going though, unless she left it idling on the hard shoulder afterwards
Not just woman i'm afraid...
Very good male friend is hopeless. He has had his car about 4 years and has NEVER changed the oil, he just keeps "topping it up", i say topping it up...when the top end is rattling like fook he then puts 5 litres in....
Oh and it's about 70k OVERDUE it's cambelt change...i have told him till i'm blue in the face to get it done or the car will be f
ked...but nope, he just carries on....actually frustrates me a bit tbh!!
Very good male friend is hopeless. He has had his car about 4 years and has NEVER changed the oil, he just keeps "topping it up", i say topping it up...when the top end is rattling like fook he then puts 5 litres in....
Oh and it's about 70k OVERDUE it's cambelt change...i have told him till i'm blue in the face to get it done or the car will be f
ked...but nope, he just carries on....actually frustrates me a bit tbh!!It's not that unusual, i've had very similar when one of the rad hoses broke off it's mounting, there was no warning, and all of a sudden, a big cloud of steam, and a temp gauge heading north pretty quick.
The big clouds of steam suggest something popped, rather than a slow leak, and overheating from no coolant left.
The big clouds of steam suggest something popped, rather than a slow leak, and overheating from no coolant left.
What a load of tosh being talked on this thread. Just because she's a young woman you assume her explosive HGF is the result of neglect?
I also had a radiator blow and cover the windscreen in coolant. Fortunately I was doing 120MPH along Bruntingthorpe runway at the time and not 70 (...) MPH on the M1.
TheEnd said:
It's not that unusual, i've had very similar when one of the rad hoses broke off it's mounting, there was no warning, and all of a sudden, a big cloud of steam, and a temp gauge heading north pretty quick.
The big clouds of steam suggest something popped, rather than a slow leak, and overheating from no coolant left.
Right. When the HG went on my Elise I had no warning. One moment pottering along, the next I have steam pouring out of the engine cover. Engine didn't overheat.The big clouds of steam suggest something popped, rather than a slow leak, and overheating from no coolant left.
I also had a radiator blow and cover the windscreen in coolant. Fortunately I was doing 120MPH along Bruntingthorpe runway at the time and not 70 (...) MPH on the M1.
Edited by tomtom on Friday 18th June 10:47
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