drewsblackmax

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Im leaving a movie last night and my car is idling very high, 2500 rpms i try revving it up a little to see if it will come down and it eventually comes down to about 1500 rpms; after about 15 minutes of normal driving, i take off and as soon as i hit 2000 rpms it starts to cut out and stall. i shifted and it did it again, then the car started to get really hot, so i turned on the heater and pulled into a parking lot. the heater was blowing out ice cold air but the temp eventually came down, so i decide to start the car again and try to drive it. I drove it around the parking lot for about a minute and everything seemed fine so i left. about 2 minutes later it started to overheat again. i stopped, shut it off, put some water in the coolant resivoir and started it again to see if it sucked any down, and it had only gone down about 1/4 of an inch, then it started getting really hot again, so i shut it down, parked it and had my dad come and pick me up. I think that my thermostat might be stuck closed but i really don't know whats going on. if it is the thermostat, i just changed it a year ago and i don't know if it would affect the idle like it was doing. Any help asap would be great as i have to work tomorrow and it has to be fixed by then.

iceman82

sounds like either your thermastat or water pump, if you just changed your thermastat my money is on the water pump. I would check your thermastat first. As far as your car idling funny I have no clue?????????? I would also sugest checking you waterpump before you just replace it....

pmohr

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Did you check to see what the level was like in the radiator? Overflow bottle doesn't really mean anything as far as coolant level. For example, if your cap gets clogged up or 'fails' in some way, it won't draw coolant in from the reservoir.

Before I replaced my water pump, I drove it leaking like a sieve for maybe a month or two (talking a gallon every day or two, turn the car off and you could just watch it stream out from the timing cover). Every day, the reservoir would be full and the radiator would be empty.

Anyway, check coolant level and come back.