Just yesterday I got my car back from the shop. Its front driver side wheel bearing had to be replaced.
My car is a 1995 mystique, Duratec MTX, the Young America edition.
It has about 115k miles on it and runs great. As you can see from my post topic, my problem is not with the wheel bearings (which work beautifully now)... but the engine overheated tonight. (actually, it didn't overheat till right when I shut it off, but it was close)
The last month or so, the coolant light would come on occasionally, but then go away. I checked the levels and the coolant is between min/max in the resevoir. (did this a while ago, and kept checking it to make sure)
The symptoms: It worked fine, then just stopped cooling.
The temperature gage works correctly.
The heater blows cold air.
The cooling fans do NOT work.
It doesn't appear that the cooling fan fuse has blown (in the fusebox).
I have had the recall done on the fan (where they installed the breaker bypass or whatever, if the fan siezes, to prevent engine fire.)
My first question, is it possible that during the repair/replacement of my wheel bearings that the mechanics disconnected the cooling fans out of safety reasons, and then reconnected it poorly? (i've heard of cooling fans being dangerous, coming on when engine off)
It just seems weird that I've had this car for 4 years and never had a problem... (it didn't even moose this winter) and now the engine overheats the day after I take it into the shop for something else.
any help/suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
-russ
