Overheated to 250, died on side of highway, left stranded

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The irony is this happened because I was trying to prevent this from happening


When coolant light first started flashing months ago I brought it in and mechanic said temp gauge was accurate, not overheating at ~200, don't worry about it

I googled, said replace cap with .4. I did that, no help

Well as summer got worse light kept flashing and temps got to ~220, just below 3/4 mark. Brought car in again on monday night the 23rd cuz didn't wanna be stranded in rush hour in 110 heat. Mechanic said temps fine, maybe low coolant, fill to very top, too full will not hurt, pressure builds until cap releases and boils over until correct level

Did that next morning, tuesday. Drove work, no problems.

After work : problems. Fine at first then temps got to 3/4 mark and stayed. Call mechanic last night, said maybe bad gauge? Should b overheating, is there water boiling? No, no water, not wet, all good. Just keep watching it then

And then this morning I already posted the story


So yeah, if I had just continued to ignore the light instead of taking to shop to fix I would probably be fine right now