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Please Help... Here is the story...
We were staying at a hotel last night, parked in garage. We get up to leave this morning, and as we are pulling out of parking stall, I notice a puddle where the car was parked.
I drive home about 10 miles. Notice the temp is going up on the gauge.
I get home park the car get out and look underneath the car. There I notice at the back of the engine on the bottom a moderate leak, about 4-5 drips a second, and it is coolant/ and or water.
I wait a couple hours until a repair shop opens, It is Sunday so only one I could find was a Firestone.
It has been a couple hours.. when i go out to take it to Firestone, there is a sizeable puddle under the car, about 3 feet in size. I put about 3/4 a gallon of coolant into it so it doesn't overheat on the way there.
They do a pressure test on it for $25. They call and tell me that it is somekind of aluminun housing that contains multiple thermostats, My car really won't overheat if I keep dumping coolant into it, but with the amount of coolant it is losing I won't be able to drive it very far. He tells me that it is a "dealer" part and has no idea how much it costs.
I did a little looking and the only thing I could come up with is this:
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/index.cfm?action=getLocator&siteid=214126&chapter= DP1NJ0&appSectionid=8&groupid=62104&subgroupid=0&c omponentid=0&make=28&model=Sunfire&year=1996&graph icID=NJP030&callout=4&catalogid=1
It is either the thermostat, therostat housing, or the water outlet, but to my knowledge none of these contain multiple thermostats. All of these are located near where the drip was, which is the rear bottom of the car.
What I need help with is this:
Is the part he is describing actually there and i am missing it or can't find it?
Is it one of the parts I listed?
Has anyone run into a similar problem?
Any help with this is appreciated as I do not really know much about cars.
Thanks in advance.
Jason
We were staying at a hotel last night, parked in garage. We get up to leave this morning, and as we are pulling out of parking stall, I notice a puddle where the car was parked.
I drive home about 10 miles. Notice the temp is going up on the gauge.
I get home park the car get out and look underneath the car. There I notice at the back of the engine on the bottom a moderate leak, about 4-5 drips a second, and it is coolant/ and or water.
I wait a couple hours until a repair shop opens, It is Sunday so only one I could find was a Firestone.
It has been a couple hours.. when i go out to take it to Firestone, there is a sizeable puddle under the car, about 3 feet in size. I put about 3/4 a gallon of coolant into it so it doesn't overheat on the way there.
They do a pressure test on it for $25. They call and tell me that it is somekind of aluminun housing that contains multiple thermostats, My car really won't overheat if I keep dumping coolant into it, but with the amount of coolant it is losing I won't be able to drive it very far. He tells me that it is a "dealer" part and has no idea how much it costs.
I did a little looking and the only thing I could come up with is this:
http://www.trademotion.com/partlocator/index.cfm?action=getLocator&siteid=214126&chapter= DP1NJ0&appSectionid=8&groupid=62104&subgroupid=0&c omponentid=0&make=28&model=Sunfire&year=1996&graph icID=NJP030&callout=4&catalogid=1
It is either the thermostat, therostat housing, or the water outlet, but to my knowledge none of these contain multiple thermostats. All of these are located near where the drip was, which is the rear bottom of the car.
What I need help with is this:
Is the part he is describing actually there and i am missing it or can't find it?
Is it one of the parts I listed?
Has anyone run into a similar problem?
Any help with this is appreciated as I do not really know much about cars.
Thanks in advance.
Jason
