Greetings Cadillac Forums,
Thought I would get the opinion from everyone here before I start to assume. I started thinking my car had HG problems about last week when "Check coolant level" displayed for not even a minute, and then went away. I didn't think too much of it but did check my coolant level the next day when the car cooled off. I was a bit low, but I was wondering if that was because the mechanics did not get all the air out when I had a coolant hose replaced a year ago.
So now tonight, I picked up a test kit and ran a few tests. I let my car warm up and threw the test on the cap. First test turned green, I waited a bit longer as the temp was only ~190, and ran the test again when the coolant was around ~210. As I was finishing up the test, coolant started spewing out of the cap and I got some into the test kit. I know this cannot be normal, I have not been losing coolant that fast. I pulled some coolant out using a turkey baster and tried the test one last time. During the entire time the test was blue, until near the end, when I am guessing I started picking up coolant, as even more coolant spewed out of the car. This time the temp was ~224.
What do you guys think? Am I being paranoid? Coolant not under pressure has a boiling point of 220, or is that the green stuff? Would that explain the overboil? Or with how much coolant on the garage floor am I looking at the dreaded HG failure?
I should note too that during each test, I could not even pump the bulb at the top of the tube that you stick in the engine. I picked up a test that you manually suck out the air, and on it it states that if you cannot pump out air or if it remains blue, you should be worry free.
Thought I would get the opinion from everyone here before I start to assume. I started thinking my car had HG problems about last week when "Check coolant level" displayed for not even a minute, and then went away. I didn't think too much of it but did check my coolant level the next day when the car cooled off. I was a bit low, but I was wondering if that was because the mechanics did not get all the air out when I had a coolant hose replaced a year ago.
So now tonight, I picked up a test kit and ran a few tests. I let my car warm up and threw the test on the cap. First test turned green, I waited a bit longer as the temp was only ~190, and ran the test again when the coolant was around ~210. As I was finishing up the test, coolant started spewing out of the cap and I got some into the test kit. I know this cannot be normal, I have not been losing coolant that fast. I pulled some coolant out using a turkey baster and tried the test one last time. During the entire time the test was blue, until near the end, when I am guessing I started picking up coolant, as even more coolant spewed out of the car. This time the temp was ~224.
What do you guys think? Am I being paranoid? Coolant not under pressure has a boiling point of 220, or is that the green stuff? Would that explain the overboil? Or with how much coolant on the garage floor am I looking at the dreaded HG failure?
I should note too that during each test, I could not even pump the bulb at the top of the tube that you stick in the engine. I picked up a test that you manually suck out the air, and on it it states that if you cannot pump out air or if it remains blue, you should be worry free.