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Hi Everyone,
I am the recent and proud owner of a celica st128 2.2 auto.
i have had it for two weeks and today i have encoundered my first problem.
I was driving along this morning and a felt my car lacked power a little bit but it was just a passing thought and assumed i was wrong.
I carried on about my day and i was was driving down the highway and at low revs i could hear a bit of a fast bearing type sound coming from the lower engine bay ( the same level as the accelerator pedal.) as i put my foot down a bit and picked the the revs the noise would go. (I also noticed the yellow engine light come on)
I then needed to overtake on the highway and as i put my foot down power was weak so i put my foot down harder and the auto dropped a gear down and it picked up but soon after the performance dropped even more.
I exited onto a slip road and as i did the car began to idle weak and so i went into the emergency lane and as i stopped it cut out and with that the brakes failed so did power steering.
I came to a stop and sat there and noticed the temp guage was on max! a failure on my part not to notice in the first place.
so at this point i had began to investigate.
- Lifted the bonnet and a little greyish smoke was coming off the engine (overheated)
- power windows and sunroof were weak for power (battery)
- car would not start
- Cooling system has very rusty water and it has leaked a bit of its orange juice from the rad cap
I left it for 20 mins to cool and and tried to start it and it would almost start. i left it another 15 mins and it then fired up so i moved it off the slip road and parked it on a main street. I got a a friend to pick me up and went ot the servo to get some coolant. i topped up the rad but not too much but enough to ease concern nd none came out of the botttom on to the road.
I let it cool to almost cold on the guage started it up and it sounded and idled perfectly and all the electrics windows etc worked normally . i then drove it and no longer than two mins later the heat was soaring again.
Im not a complete mechanical novice but all my experience is on BMW E30's and to be totally honest im at a loss to understand what the problem is with this.
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thank you
- Lifted the bonnet and a little greyish smoke was coming off the engine (overheated)
2.2 st128 strange problem
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if there is no such thing as an st128 i guess its a st184. its a 2.2 1992 celica