Problems, Andason finally needs help Options

[Andason]

Ok, so everything seems to mess up on my car at once.

The car's CEL is on. I put it a paper clip in TE1 and E1 and nothing blinked.

My car shakes really hard at idle when I first start (Around 10-20 degrees out)

The heat guage goes from medium to high really fast. (and then back down)

And it smells like it's burning anti-freeze (head gasket??? eeek)

This post has been edited by Andason: Dec 27, 2004 - 11:10 PM

[1bwilson]

come on guys....its a 98 5sfe with about 10,000 miles on it.  a headgasket would cause the car to totally overheat. his car, over heats....cools back down....and over heats....cools... sounds like the thermostat is not doing its job at keeping proper engine temps.
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Low coolent would cause that up, down, up with the cooling also. Its the burning smell that kwanza was worried about. Thats the reason for the oil check. 10,000 miles.... Odds are he threw the code due to over heating cause the coolent was low. I'd hope the stat didn't go bad that soon.