I'm pretty much car stupid when it comes to under the hood. My car won't blow cold air anymore. I tried to make myself feel better by looking under the hood like I knew what I was doing. Riiiight...anyways, I did notice my coolant level was a little low. As a couple of weeks have passed (no money to get it looked at) the coolant has gone down a little more. I'm pretty sure the engine isn't supposed to eat coolant like that. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

 

Look for a leak, but in the mean time add some coolant. You don't want to run with low coolant. You can overheat, which can cause head damage or distroy your water pump.




Now your cooling problem:

Your A/C system has probably lost it's charge. Have a professional charge it and check for any leaks. You can buy R134 at any automotive parts store and charge it yourself, but if the system has lost all of it's charge, chances are there's a leak that needs to be fixed.

 

Does the 4th generation Maxima have R134 from the factory?

 

Fill up your coolant.

 

same sort of question, does the Max use R134 or do we have an R12 system?

if its R12 is there a retro fit for the car to switch it to R134?

 

Look above and read, the maxima uses R134

 

Kewl Beans Thanks for clearing that up for me....