03 Civic; Noise like steam pipe pressure being released in idle & shuts off engine.

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on my situation. As you can see since I can't even specify a subject, I'm not versed in automobiles.

ANyway, here it goes:

Yesterday, while I was in a parking lot in idle, I heard this loud noise coming from under my hood and I saw a plume of smoke.

It sounded like a steam pipe releasing steam. Then there was the smell of burned rubber. While I was sitting in the driver's seat, it came from the left side.

It drove fine. Or at least, I thought it did. There's a hissing sound in the car now. Very faint hissing noise, like a fan.

I tried to recreate the samething this morning and withou fail, while in park I rev'd it up to about 2000rpm and loud noise like pressure being released from steam pipe and car shuts off.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific with what part under the hood I think it's coming from, but I'm completely ignorant.

The car has 61000Kms, so just out of my warranty. Hopefully, it's still cover under my power train..But, I'm guessing it's not.

There was some sort of liquid leak under the car, but I didn't notice what colour it was last night. I've driven it about 60 kms since, no problem except the hissing noise. It seems to drive fine.

Any help is appreciated.

 

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Its tough to tell with that info and without seeing it but it sounds like a leak in the coolant system possibly. see if the fluid is greenish and smells sweet if it does its something to do with the cooling system that leaves lots of possibilities. im interested to see what the prob is. i would take it in asap

 

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