1995 Mercury Sable Car overheating after reving motor f/bei

SUE MILLER

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1995 MERCURY SABLE

1995 Mercury Sable 6 cyl Automatic 42000 miles

Subject: (Car overheating after reving motor f/being stuck/snow) I drove a few miles after my neighbor revved the heck out of my engine in order to get out of a snowy-icy driveway.(Apparently do not have 2-wheel drive so not sure how to answer that category). Upon arriving back home after a brief journey, I noticed my car was smoking under the hood and earlier that the heater was not working, so added anti-freeze after an appropriate cool-down. But before that I noticed a moisture of some sort of substance on the battery but on the opposite side of the radiator and anti-freeze septical sectuib of the engine. I then ran the car and noticed the temp gage was not registering high, or registering at all, but suddenly, it began kind of smokin' under the hood and when I looked at the situation, there was a poof from what appeared to be a big 12-14 inch wide hose. What happened because my car was running fine before being stuck in the snow?

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BMRFIXIT

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Most likely you have a blown hose
have it replaced and get the system fill back with coolant
DO NOT drive it and let it run hot and overheat

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Saturday, February 7th, 2009 AT 6:48 AM

SUE MILLER

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Thank you for taking the time to respond and I am glad I got familiar with this site; however, I did take my car the next morning in very frigid weather and it didn't overheat to an auto repair place and they did kind of hose me LoL! Because of it being a 1995 vehicle (very low mileage I might add), I was told they could not get the complete assembly to replace a part that incorporated the hose and/or hoses so they were all replaced along with doing a flush of the radiator and replacement of its hose together with a new thermostat. There was also some minor damage to the transmission. It was a costly repair but a HUGE LEARNING EXPERIENCE in not trusting men to know how to handle situations. As a woman, I will always be on my own as my judgment is much sounder but failed in not hauling his fat hind-end out of my car before he nearly destroyed everything under my hood. Again thanks!