hi guys,

so some bullshit things happened.

01 civic...auto... 180 000 km on it....was driving and the car started to get heated up...

checked coolant was low...topped it up and driving again and hood starts smoking...

i went and checked the smoke/coolant was coming from the coolant reservoir. smoke and pressure was coming out of it.

got it checked, and what do u know, they said its a hard problem to diagnose, start off cheapest.

got thermostat changed...

worked fine for about 100 km and den same ****...

den tested the fan and the sensor....jumped the fan so its on for about 2 days straight...car still heated up, so cant be the sensor or the fan... cause the fan used to turn on whenever the sensor told it to...

but when i jump the fan and turn it on 24 hours the car would still heat up...and same **** would happen again...

coolant leaking from the reservoir...AGAIN!!!!

den got a new radiator... worked fine for about 2 days...

den same **** happening now...

i drive for about 10 mins and the car will heat up...and i open the hood and all my coolant came out on the engine and battery from the cooling reservoir .

some people are saying its water pump, some are saying head gasket...

i topped the coolant up in the radiator first only and same **** happens...den when i top it up in radiator and reservoir ... the car is started...i can see bubbles coming from the reservoir...as if the pressure or the air is still escaping...but for how long ???


now what the hell is this? spent nearly 300 on repairs and about 80 bucks of coolant that kept leaking out... so i kept topping it up... i got the labour money off cause my friend helped me out workin on it...

now wtf is the probelm? its pissin me off cause i unno...didnt expect to get stuck in this sort of ****..

i heard people do compression tests, but what exactly is that? how much does it cost to get it done around? what will it tell me ?

does my problem seem like the headgasket or the water pump....cause i really dont know if the pump has been changed or not...same goes for the timing belt....no clue if its been changed or not...

right now i stopped driving and the car is just sittin in the parking lot cause if i drive, the coolant leaks from reservoir...

I have no clue how long this will last, and i need my car fixed asap too...so ill be posting similar things on different forums so please dont get annoyed...its freezing weather out and i need a car...lol

please help...thanks

 

head gasket

 

x2

 

X3

 

Not only to people fail to search, they even fail to look over the threads on page one.

 

a simple leakdown test would have told you what the problem is....if you don't know how to do one, many shops will do it for around $50

 

nice job quoting your own post in that thread

 

AHAhaaa!

Wait... what? Are you giving me crap?! That's it!

 

also try getting your heater core flushed. mine was doing the same things and i went down the the local shop and got it flushed and its been working fine ever since.