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If
No
Steam
Is
Coming
From Your
Engine
If
you get the overheat warning but see or hear no
steam, the problem may not be too serious. Sometimes
the engine can get a little too hot when you:
Climb a long hill on a hot day.
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Stop after high-speed driving.
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Idle for long periods in traffic.
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Tow a trailer.
If
you get the overheat warning with no sign of steam,
try this for a minute or
so:
1.
Turn
off
your air conditioner.
2.
Turn on your heater to
full
hot
at the highest fan
speed and open the window as necessary.
3.
If you’re in a traffic jam, shift to NEUTRAL
(N);
otherwise, shift to the highest gear while
driving
--
AUTOMATIC OVERDRIVE
(@)
or
DRIVE
(D)
for automatic transaxles.
If you no longer have the overheat warning, you can
drive. Just
to
be safe, drive slower for about
10
minutes.
If
the
warning doesn’t come back on, you can
drive normally.
If
the
warning continues, pull
over,
stop, and park your
vehicle right away.
If there’s still
no
sign of steam, you can idle the engine
for two or three minutes while you’re parked, to see if
the warning stops. But then,
if
you still have the
warning,
turn ofthe engine and get everyone out
of
the vehicle
until
it
cools down.
You
may decide not to lift the hood but to get service
help right away.
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