I was driving down the highway. It was about 55 degrees out. I smell something funny... car stops accelerating in 5th gear. I drop it to 4th for a moment and back to 5th and it continues to accelerate. But shortly the smell got strong and smelled awful. Really awful. I drive 2 more miles to the nearest exit, as soon as I go down the off ramp, the car shuts off. I stop at the stop sign and push my white smoking car to the gas station. Car wouldn't start after it stopped smoking. I wait an hr n a half and check the fluids and guages. The guage was in the middle all the way up until I got onto the offramp and it shot up to overheating level right before it shut off. But that smell was so strong, I don't understand why it wasn't working and then read the right reading right before car shut off. ... so, the antifreeze is empty, I fill it up, its leaking out of the freeze plug at the bottom. All hoses are intact. Im pretty sure the smell was oil burning... the oil levels are fine, no water in it or anguish. I take the bleeder or whatever the thing is off of the throttle body and disconnect it from air intake hose thing. There is oil sitting in the bottom of the bleeder but not up the air intake thing. The car wouldn't ever start. It sounded better once I took the bleeder off. Acranks but won't turn over. Friend looked and said the flywheel was not catching.... sooooo im stumped... =(
2003 Sunfire overheated & won't start
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I was not able to understand everything that your trying to get across.
What I got out of this is your car overheated, the smell you were talking about I have to guess was antifreeze spraying on the engine an exhaust.
from this point you let it cool down and tried to drive the car again, and it overheated again but this time the temperature gauge wasn't working.
If I am correct and translated what you wrote down it sounds like you cooked your engine popped out a expansion plug AKA freeze plug.
the gauge stopped working when it didn't have any coolant around the temperature sensor to make it work, no water no heat transfer to make the sensor work.
You do not have any coolant in the oil because the expansion plug popped out before the heads cracked or the gaskets blew.
Now the engine doesn't start because you have no compression.
Have your friend bring you to Autozone Napa or anyone that has a tool loaner program pick up a compression tester kit and check the compression on your engine.
If you need help with this we can help.
If I have translated what you said wrong please take your time and clearly write what you mean.
I hope this helps
What I got out of this is your car overheated, the smell you were talking about I have to guess was antifreeze spraying on the engine an exhaust.
from this point you let it cool down and tried to drive the car again, and it overheated again but this time the temperature gauge wasn't working.
If I am correct and translated what you wrote down it sounds like you cooked your engine popped out a expansion plug AKA freeze plug.
the gauge stopped working when it didn't have any coolant around the temperature sensor to make it work, no water no heat transfer to make the sensor work.
You do not have any coolant in the oil because the expansion plug popped out before the heads cracked or the gaskets blew.
Now the engine doesn't start because you have no compression.
Have your friend bring you to Autozone Napa or anyone that has a tool loaner program pick up a compression tester kit and check the compression on your engine.
If you need help with this we can help.
If I have translated what you said wrong please take your time and clearly write what you mean.
I hope this helps