All cars have systems that protect them from possible damage due to lack of maintenance or misuse. these are the calls alerts that were made precisely to warn the driver that he will have a possible problem or already has it and needs to be checked.
These seek to be preventive and corrective and the ideal is to go to the workshop to check them. Below we tell you about three that can cause serious damage if not attended to on time.
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Temperature
Any sign of this origin forces us to stop and look for the causes and eventual solutions because the regulations when the alerts are activated there is already excessive heat and the cylinder head gasket or the pistons themselves may be within the tolerance limit. The immediate solutions work if there is an obvious refrigerant leak and you have the spare part accessible or the fan does not turn on, which is visible because with the warning light on, it must be spinning.
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Take into account a perverse condition of most cars: if the water comes out due to a rupture of hoses or the radiator, The thermometer never shows you that the engine is melting on the inside because without water, the sensor doesn’t read. When that happens, it is common to perceive a typical smell of spilled coolant while driving and eventually steam comes out of the sides of the hood.
the overheated box
In current automatic cars, of all brands, it is very common for the box oil to overheat when it is left to work on its own in the mountains. That’s when you start to do a lot of the wrong shifting because they’re often not calibrated for these hills and heights, and engine torque drops off as the road climbs.
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The oil boils, it bubbles, the gears slip, the light bulb flashes and the car stops. Before all this happens, always drive the box in the manual position in the mountains and fully using the engine, without fear, that’s what it’s for. Don’t let her think because the box doesn’t know about our climates.
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Some ‘tame’ if they are allowed to cool for a long time, stopping the car, but others, when the computer finds out about this anomaly, either do not let the vehicle drive anymore or put the system in protection mode, and You have to go to the workshop to erase the fault from the program.
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