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Saab 900s '96 loses coolant
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poogod
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Feb 28, 2009, 8:42 PM
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Saab 900s '96 loses coolant
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Issue started: on the highway after driving a constant 75 mph or so for about 80 miles or so. The check engine light started blinking rapidly. No performance drops or anything like that.
1996
SAAB
900s
engine - 2.3L (i think)
miles - 150k - 160k
My SAAB 900s leaks coolant very quickly. When the car is on, bubbles seem to appear in the coolant tank. The tank will go from full to bone-dry empty in around 2-3 miles of driving. It only seems to lose coolant while the car is on, and the coolant ends up splattered all over the engine bay, although running the engine and watching it I can't find any visible leaks. With a leak this rapid I know that no stop leak type fluid will permanently fix it, so I'm really just popping this here to get a rough idea of what it might be and a general idea what kind of cost I should be expecting
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Tom Greenleaf
Ultimate Carjunky
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Mar 1, 2009, 3:04 AM
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Re: Saab 900s '96 loses coolant
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?? You may need to wipe down the soaked engine + areas/items around, refill as best you can and watch from cold for leaks. If it got all over engine it is either leaking on something moving or in path of a fan like at radiator. Pressure testing would help too. If nothing found and it holds pressure it could be head gasket troubles and tricky to diagnose at first sometimes.
How much depends on what's wrong, if damage has occurred and it being a $AAB means at least double for most anything it might need,
T
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