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SAABeginner
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 3
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Oil in radiator fluid
Had radiator replaced. Because car over heated and there wade creamy coffee colored sludge milk shake thick in plastic coolant fluid tank.. Now just got car back same issue... Over 600. Dollars spent.. Has anyone had this problem and what was the issue?
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 6,468
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Edit: Just saw it's a V6....
Last edited by mike saunders; 01-24-2013 at 06:05 PM. |
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Elder
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Vermont
Posts: 3,403
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Not knowing a dang thing about newer 9-5's, I will say that general automotive convention tell me that a car overheats because of some other reason....not because of the radiator. If it were back in the 60's....maybe. These days with electric cooling fans etc, even the nastiest V8 can sit in 100* city traffic with the original radiator and not overheat.
Changing your radiator (unless there was CLEARLY something drastically wrong with it, like it had a hole and leaked all of your coolant) would do nothing. You had something happen where coolant and oil are both present. Head gasket Turbocharger MAYBE radiator if it has a built-in oil cooler for the engine oil or automatic trans fluid. Something let go except your radiator, and the shop replacing it did nothing except take your money.
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SAAB Road Master
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 373
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Something let go except your radiator, and the shop replacing it did nothing except take your money.[/QUOTE] good call VIOO9DZ, apparently i dont quote well
all to often this happens . although ive found some car experts no nothing about saabs, but that is not what happened here , this is a rip off. who goes radiator right away without a puddle of green stuff under it ? Last edited by gdc; 01-24-2013 at 10:41 PM. |
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Elder
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,930
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Elder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Greater Burlington, Vermont
Posts: 4,023
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This car is a 99-03 9-5 3.0 V6 and is just posted in the wrong forum.
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Live, eat, and sleep by TSL
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: baltimore
Posts: 1,643
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If Atf was found in the coolant & Vice versa then yea, The radiator was bad. If engine oil is found in the coolant, than the oil cooler, located in between the cylinder heads is Leaking internaly into the coolant. or a head gasket issue, but oil in the coolant of any Opel derived 2.5/3.0 is ussually always the oil cooler.
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