SiennaLover69
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So I was driving the other day not far maybe just a few miles and while waiting in a drive thru I notice my car starting to overheat. Right when it starts getting into the red I hear a pop noise from under the hood and white smoke starts pouring out (coming out mostly at the passenger side of the hood). I turn the car off and pop the hood and mostly seeing smoke coming out from around the front and to the left of the engine. I wait a bit and decide to see what happens when I turn it on and it is running okay, just a little bit of a rough idle for a couple mins and the car still running a little hot but nothing else, it runs pretty fine and I take it home (I was like 2 mins from home).
So any ideas on what it could be?
Before this happened my car would fluctuate a bit at idle but that would usually stop when the car warmed up and I've been running mostly water in the radiator for the past 6 months or so. I haven't really driven it too much the past year save for the last couple months when I started taking full time classes again.
Any help would be great! I am a super noob and have been learning as I've had to fix things lol.
Edit: Also there is no smoke coming from the exhaust, just some from under the hood. I took it for a 15 min spin earlier and I noticed it overheating just a tiny bit and a little bit of white smoke coming from the under the hood and the radiator seemed pretty empty.
So any ideas on what it could be?
Before this happened my car would fluctuate a bit at idle but that would usually stop when the car warmed up and I've been running mostly water in the radiator for the past 6 months or so. I haven't really driven it too much the past year save for the last couple months when I started taking full time classes again.
Any help would be great! I am a super noob and have been learning as I've had to fix things lol.
Edit: Also there is no smoke coming from the exhaust, just some from under the hood. I took it for a 15 min spin earlier and I noticed it overheating just a tiny bit and a little bit of white smoke coming from the under the hood and the radiator seemed pretty empty.
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