Car overheating and tranny problems help!
#1
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Car overheating and tranny problems help!
so I’m driving home and I reach a stop sign so I stop and I go into first gear. I let off the clutch and it seems my car is having trouble engaging, it was jerking and even tho I was in first gear there was no power just a jerking movement as I tried to gas it. I look at my gauges and my car was overheating and the check engine light came on(I still don’t have the code). I look back on my rear view mirror and I see that I’m leaking coolant. I decided to leave the car on and use the momentum I had to make it to my house approximately 3 blocks away(2min). I opened my hood and My coolant reservoir was overfull and probably leaking. I had checked not to long ago and my coolant level was fine hours before this incident. I have no idea why my transmission wasn’t engaging and why my car was leaking coolant and overheating. If anybody can help me that would be great.
#3
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so I’m driving home and I reach a stop sign so I stop and I go into first gear. I let off the clutch and it seems my car is having trouble engaging, it was jerking and even tho I was in first gear there was no power just a jerking movement as I tried to gas it. I look at my gauges and my car was overheating and the check engine light came on(I still don’t have the code). I look back on my rear view mirror and I see that I’m leaking coolant. I decided to leave the car on and use the momentum I had to make it to my house approximately 3 blocks away(2min). I opened my hood and My coolant reservoir was overfull and probably leaking. I had checked not to long ago and my coolant level was fine hours before this incident. I have no idea why my transmission wasn’t engaging and why my car was leaking coolant and overheating. If anybody can help me that would be great.
Yeah.. I can help you by telling you to figure out where the coolant leak is coming from and have the code read with an OBD II scanner.
#4
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Code is probably for over-temp. Jerking was because the car is in limp mode. Leak was from the res overflowing due to the overheating. Most common failure is the T-stat. Pull the code and get back to us.