My car recently overheated and i found out that the radiator hose had a slit in it. I replaced it, put water in and when i started to start the car it would die slowly until the engine shuts off. what is the problem? the battery light turns on right when it dies.

 

Well the battery light turning on is your car turning off, same as key to position two. Now describe slowly die in detail, for all I know it gets all melodramatic going "the time is near...."

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SloS13 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">probably a good time to check your compression. could have warped the head.</TD></TR></TABLE> If you ran it for an extended period of time with no coolant. I drove home once 25 miles with the needle in the red on my B2, the motor pulled the same comp. numbers as it did two weeks prior.

 

^ eww, lucky man

 

now it just wont start. It'll just die within two to three seconds of starting up.