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From: mjs@cmu-cs-g.ARPA (Mark Stehlik)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: overheating Celica
Message-ID: <306@cmu-cs-g.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 4-Sep-85 14:41:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  4 14:41:53 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 6-Sep-85 05:13:33 EDT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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My parents had a similar problem with their '79 Regal which also had been
in an accident with front-end damage.  The car would overheat at highway
speeds (or in traffic) and could be cooled off a little by turning the
heater on full blast.  That last item is a real clue.  Essentially you're
using the heater as an auxiliary radiator.  The only recourse is to do
exactly what the radiator shop suggested:  flow test the radiator.  Given
that it had some front-end damage, I would suspect that the radiator
has internal damage preventing proper circulation of coolant.

One alternative would be to do what we did to cure the Regal's problem -
just replace the radiator outright.  Shouldn't be more than $200 and, in
the case of the Regal, the car has run absolutely fine ever since.

				Mark
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