- #2001 LUMINA COOLANT LEAK FIX WITH BARS LEAK CRACKED#
- #2001 LUMINA COOLANT LEAK FIX WITH BARS LEAK FULL#
I pulled over at a gas station waited for the vehicle to cool down and popped the radiator cap, to not much surprise the radiator was bone dry. By the beginning of December of 2007 the upper and lower intake manifold had began to leak, and on a trip out to Wisconsin one Saturday my low coolant light came on. As time went on and the Minnesota cold winter took it's tool on the Lumina the leak got increasingly worse. At the time, it wasn't serious enough to be worthy of repair, since I wasn't loosing much coolant and it seemed to just be a drip every day or so.
Coolant at this time was just seeping through the lower intake manifold gasket. Leak started real small in late summer of 2007. I just wish this hadn't been an issue in the first place! Regardless, they do good work and stand behind it. I suppose considering how much I'd already put down that day between new brake drums and this, it was just a drop in the bucket.
#2001 LUMINA COOLANT LEAK FIX WITH BARS LEAK FULL#
I do have to put in a good word here for the Midas in Ames, Iowa - they did a very thorough job, and Ben, the mechanic who worked on my car, did a full coolant flush for me after he was finished and did not charge me for that (about $90 value).
#2001 LUMINA COOLANT LEAK FIX WITH BARS LEAK CRACKED#
The plastic ones had cracked on all sides and were thankfully still leaking externally instead of into the engine somehow, it had managed to stay out of the engine so far, as the oil ran clear when they changed it. I returned to the shop late in the afternoon, at which point the mechanic who was working on my car showed me the busted gaskets and the aftermarket steel parts which he was replacing them with. I called to check on how things were coming along, and the mechanic informed me that the brakes were done, and they had identified the problem in the cooling system: the intake manifold gaskets had cracked and that was where the coolant was leaking out of the car.
I went to Midas, as they had quoted me on the brake repair last week, and asked if they could take a look at the cooling system when they were done with the brakes. (It didn't hurt that my rear brakes also needed replacing, and I was actually more concerned with that at the time than the cooling system, due to the recent rainy/snowy weather.) I was thankfully concerned enough about it this time to take it in and have it looked at as soon as I dropped my husband off at his job. The low coolant light came on upon starting the engine, but went off once I reached street speeds. I filled up the reservoir and assumed the problem was fixed as the light never came on again since I hadn't had it serviced in a couple months, I just figured it was overdue.Įverything was uneventful until this past Thursday morning, when I started the car to drive my husband and myself to our respective jobs. 3 months ago or so, my low coolant light came on, but I didn't think much of it for some reason as nothing was overheating or running oddly, and it was only coming on intermittently on startup (no "stupid woman" comment needed).
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