wildbore
01-26-2005, 05:32 PM
A week ago I noticed a white vapor from my exhaust pipe, It was cold out so I didn`t think anything about it. I went to the tile store and the guy told me to bring my truck and trailer around and he would forklift the tile into the trailer. I started it up and noticed the white vapor again, as I drove from the parking lot to the loading dock the vapor was pouring out the tail pipe. I stopped and got out and all I could smell was a sweet sickly smell of antifreeze.
I called the dealer, but he couldn`t get me in no sooner than a week, I was having a panic attack, he said it would be okay to drive . Every now and then I would see the vapor and the low coolant light would come on, it wasn`t really low, but I filled it up each time. By the third day, the temperature gauge would just lay on 160 , on the way home it jumped up to 260 fell back to 210 and jumped up and down the rest of the way home. I did not drive it the next day and found a dealer in Frederick who could take it that night. He was a really nice guy and said he would call me daily and update on what was going on.
Today I get a call from a guy that said he replaced two thermostats and rotated the tires and that it was ready to go. Huh? What about the antifreeze coming out of the exhaust, He said the only thing written on the work order was truck had temperture flucuations and no heat. I guess the service writer was in a hurry to get home.
He said he would check truck again and that the thermostats are not covered under warranty and that it would be $250.00 for that. I think I`m getting screwed. I`m don`t think they checked the thermostats and even if they were bad wasn`t it caused by the antifreeze problem?
Has anybody had injector cup seals replaced, were the symptoms the same? If it is a headgasket what should the dealer replace, should he change the oil?
Sorry for the long rant.
wayne
I called the dealer, but he couldn`t get me in no sooner than a week, I was having a panic attack, he said it would be okay to drive . Every now and then I would see the vapor and the low coolant light would come on, it wasn`t really low, but I filled it up each time. By the third day, the temperature gauge would just lay on 160 , on the way home it jumped up to 260 fell back to 210 and jumped up and down the rest of the way home. I did not drive it the next day and found a dealer in Frederick who could take it that night. He was a really nice guy and said he would call me daily and update on what was going on.
Today I get a call from a guy that said he replaced two thermostats and rotated the tires and that it was ready to go. Huh? What about the antifreeze coming out of the exhaust, He said the only thing written on the work order was truck had temperture flucuations and no heat. I guess the service writer was in a hurry to get home.
He said he would check truck again and that the thermostats are not covered under warranty and that it would be $250.00 for that. I think I`m getting screwed. I`m don`t think they checked the thermostats and even if they were bad wasn`t it caused by the antifreeze problem?
Has anybody had injector cup seals replaced, were the symptoms the same? If it is a headgasket what should the dealer replace, should he change the oil?
Sorry for the long rant.
wayne