Hi all,
I am hoping you have some advice for me. I have a 95 Civic EX (stock if that matters). Recently, my temperature gauge started going up while I'm at idle. So I had my boyfriend check my coolant to make sure everything is ok. He put in a new thermostat hoping that was the only problem. Apparently, it wasn't. Now the temperature is going way up there, not just a little bit. The coolant is flowing out of the radiator into the overflow, but not back into the radiator.

My boyfriend's father thinks it is the head gasket. I'm hoping it is not, but rather, something much simpler. I am not putting a lot of money into my car because I'm planning to sell it next month.

I have an unrelated problem as well. My speedometer started going crazy a few months ago. Meaning I will be driving along and it will drop to 0 all of a sudden, then just as quickly jump up to about 70 (even if I'm only going like 40) then it goes back down and eventually just settling at 0. Nothing else happened, just goes up and down like a freak. Started only happening when it was cold, but now it does it all of the time even when it is warmed up. Is this something that is common?

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Oh but if you tell me what to do, can you give me an estimate of what it should cost? That would be really nice since I don't want to get ripped off. Thanks.

Jen