Car Cooling System Service & Repair Bolton
A properly maintained cooling system is so essential to prevent your engine from overheating or, even worse, seizing up.
The engine cooling system impacts your car’s dependability and will effect your engine’s longevity.
Driving produces an enormous amount of heat – enough to cause serious damage to your engine. Don’t be the driver on the side of the road, hood up, with steam spewing out!
At Pontieri Auto Service we’ll inspect your cooling system to spot any potential problems before they start.
If you suspect there is a problem with your cooling system, you should have it checked right away.
Heating & Cooling Warning Signs:
- Dashboard temperature gauge rises when idling or moving slowly
- Dashboard light indicates low coolant
- Frequent need to add more coolant
- Scent of antifreeze inside vehicle
- Coloured liquid under the front of the vehicle
- Steam rising from under the hood
- Coolant in exhaust
- Discoloured coolant
Keep your cool in the heat. Grab a cooling system inspection at Pontieri Auto Service today.
Car Engine Cooling System
Your car’s cooling system consists of four major parts, which are the radiator, water pump, thermostat and your coolant.
Radiator
Your vehicle’s radiator is a series of channels where coolant is cooled. Since hot fluids enter, and cold fluids leave a radiator, it is important you never open a hot radiator cap. Your radiator cap holds in a high level of pressure and opening it could cause serious injuries such as burns to your hands and face. Your radiator should be checked occasionally, and depending on the make of your car and the number of kilometers, Pontieri Auto Services can inform you if a radiator flush is necessary. Furthermore, hoses leading in and out of the radiator get brittle with time and these should be replaced or monitored for leaks.
Water Pump
The water pump moves the coolant from the radiator and through the engine, where the coolant is returned back to the radiator. Early signs of a water pump failure are spots of coolant in your parking spot, or a strong coolant odor when you drive.
Thermostat
The thermostat decides when coolant should be run through your engine. When you first warm up your car on a cold January morning, coolant obviously does not need to run through your engine as your car is not running at its ideal temperature. A faulty thermostat may cause your engine to meltdown if it decides to not send coolant to your engine, which is why we suggest checking it on occasion.
Coolant
Your car’s coolant is a mix of water and ethylene glycol. Ethylene Glycol is what makes your coolant an antifreeze as it stops the water in your car from freezing in cold temperatures. Ethylene Glycol also lubricates the moving parts it may come in contact with, such as the water pump. Coolant gets extremely hot in your car’s engine, and as such, coolant typically has a high boiling point, such as 135 degrees Celsius.
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