Now on ScienceBlogs: The Lights Stay On Inside a Black Hole!

Seed Media Group

Collective Imagination

« An English Experience: B&B in Whitby | Main | Gabo and Shakespeare: Two Islands, one hypnotic ending »

A geyser in the car

Posted on: July 30, 2007 3:53 AM, by Selva

Yesterday afternoon, I took the car out and after driving a few minutes noticed the air over the bonnet shimmering and undulating like in a mirage. I have seen this before and it's not good news. The last time I saw this sign, the car burst into flames, the birds flew away, the sky clouded up and I heard the devil. I quickly parked the car and took a look inside the bonnet. The engine had overheated and was hissing and puffing at the seams. I clearly remember adding any coolant, about four months ago. Understandably, the engine was unhappy about it. when I opened the coolant chamber lid scalding hot fluid gushed out barely missing making a hot meal of my fingers. Luckily a bottle of water I carry for emergencies was at hand. I emptied it into the coolant chamber standing as far away from the car as possible, and watched in fascination as the water went in and came right out, and kept doing this for a few times. A geyser.

Share this: Stumbleupon Reddit Email + More

TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/46815

Comments

1

I no longer have a car (I gave mine up several years ago after moving to a city in France where I simply don't need one), but when I did have one, that happened to me once. In my case, also a disaster. The headgasket blew. The cause was the thermostat had broken, so there was no indication of the temperature; hence, the fan to cool to the water in the radiator never turned on. As far as I can recall, there was no warning before the geyser, albeit afterwards the "oil" idiot light was lit (probably due to losing oil through the blown head gasket). Bletch...!

Posted by: blf | July 30, 2007 6:01 AM

Post a Comment

(Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for spam, so your comment may not appear immediately.)





ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Enter to win a free copy of The Monty Hall Problem
Visit the Collective Imagination blog
Advertisement
Collective Imagination

© 2006-2009 Seed Media Group LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Seed Media Group. All rights reserved.

Sites by Seed Media Group: Seed Media Group | ScienceBlogs | SEEDMAGAZINE.COM