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Yesterday, I decided that my car had been running hot for too long. (It's been a couple weeks, but I hadn't really paid any attention to it because the translucent wall on the coolant tank indicated that it was half-full. Yesterday, though, it redlined, so I stopped by Wal-Mart and bought some Prestone to top the tank off.) Upon opening the coolant tank, I discovered that the reason it appeared half-full was that there was dried coolant stuck to the walls, opaquing them the same way that the coolant itself usually does. So I dumped the whole gallon of Prestone in, and now the car's running at its normal temperature.
Also over the past few weeks, I've been noticing that the fogging problem I used to complain about (when I first turn the car on, the driver's side windshield and door window fog up with a greasy substance that I can't quite wipe off; if I turn the defogger on, it makes it worse, but the defogger is the only real way to get rid of it. It takes about fifteen minutes of running the defogger full blast before it goes away) mysteriously vanished. No warning, no real reason that I could find - it just stopped happening.
This morning, the windshield looked like it was starting to fog up normally - that is, with normal condensation - so I turned the defogger on, and lo and behold, the windshield was almost immediately fogged with a greasy substance that I couldn't quite wipe off, for the first time in weeks.
What stuns me is that it took me fifteen minutes of driving to make the connection.
So now I get to take both Volvos to the mechanic. I didn't really mind the fogging before, but now that I'm pretty sure that a) there's coolant in my vent system, and b) that means there's a coolant leak, I really want to get this checked out.
Also over the past few weeks, I've been noticing that the fogging problem I used to complain about (when I first turn the car on, the driver's side windshield and door window fog up with a greasy substance that I can't quite wipe off; if I turn the defogger on, it makes it worse, but the defogger is the only real way to get rid of it. It takes about fifteen minutes of running the defogger full blast before it goes away) mysteriously vanished. No warning, no real reason that I could find - it just stopped happening.
This morning, the windshield looked like it was starting to fog up normally - that is, with normal condensation - so I turned the defogger on, and lo and behold, the windshield was almost immediately fogged with a greasy substance that I couldn't quite wipe off, for the first time in weeks.
What stuns me is that it took me fifteen minutes of driving to make the connection.
So now I get to take both Volvos to the mechanic. I didn't really mind the fogging before, but now that I'm pretty sure that a) there's coolant in my vent system, and b) that means there's a coolant leak, I really want to get this checked out.
