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Old 05-26-2018, 03:16 PM
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Clean those radiators! That is all.
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Old 05-26-2018, 03:22 PM
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Good reminder!


I had a whole saguaro cacti and 2.3 children in mine the last cleaning...
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Never had that much but they do fill up.
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Wow, that's a lot of stuff. Where do you drive, in the woods? On a freshly mowed lawn? When was the last time you cleaned that? Should be at least once a year or more frequently.
I can't believe there's that much "stuff' where you live.
Is your car lowered?
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That is a lot of debris in the radiator area. I check mine every time I detail my car.
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Old 05-26-2018, 08:07 PM
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Wow, that's a lot of stuff. Where do you drive, in the woods? On a freshly mowed lawn? When was the last time you cleaned that? Should be at least once a year or more frequently.
I can't believe there's that much "stuff' where you live.
Is your car lowered?
LOL this is the car that lived in the weeds for 10 years. I've only owned it just over two months, been slowly getting it back into full-time every day condition. I hadn't cleaned it yet, and now that the weather has warmed up and I'm using the A/C, I've been running way too warm - seen as much as 237 on the DIC, when I was just loafing along. So it was time to figure it out, and as soon as I looked underneath and saw the barnyard in there, I knew what the problem was. Also picked up a new pressure cap since the original was looking a little tired.

Nice long drive with my wife this afternoon, A/C running, and temps cycled between 195-205 just like they are supposed to.
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Wow, that's a lot of stuff. Where do you drive, in the woods? On a freshly mowed lawn? When was the last time you cleaned that? Should be at least once a year or more frequently.
I can't believe there's that much "stuff' where you live.
Is your car lowered?
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Yet we will still have 20 posts this summer about cars running hot *HELP* lol
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Wow, that's a lot of stuff. Where do you drive, in the woods? On a freshly mowed lawn? When was the last time you cleaned that? Should be at least once a year or more frequently.
I can't believe there's that much "stuff' where you live.
Is your car lowered?
This was 4 days, a trip to Deals gap and back.....about 1500 ish miles. I cleaned it before I left, I blow mine out every other oil change.


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Looks like you could start a campfire with all that
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