Alright, so after a week or so of constantly having to refill my radiator with coolant, and seeing a puddle on the ground...I decided that I had a small leak in my radiator. I came to this conclusion right when I really had to drive somewhere. So I dumped some pepper into the radiator to plug the leak.

Since I was planning on driving around 500 miles this weekend, I figured I should take the car to the shop to get it checked out. Well today my mechanic couldn't get the car to leak, or determine where the leak had been. He said I should be fine (and is aware of my pepper fix).

Will my pepper fix suffice for the long haul? It makes me feel like I should carry around some water/coolant and more pepper in case the leak appears again when I'm not aware (b/c I don't feel like checking the coolant level every time I drive somewhere.

What do you guys think?

6/27/2006 9:16:19 PM

no, the pepper trick is a temporary fix. hell, if pepper worked that damn good then there wouldn't be any replacement radiators for sale. however, i think i remember hearing mythbusters put a raw egg in a radiator and it held up.

6/27/2006 9:18:52 PM

yeah... i mean i'm sure it plugged 1/2 the radiator but it got the leak too.

6/27/2006 9:23:06 PM

what about the egg trick?

6/27/2006 9:24:10 PM

open radiator cap, put raw egg in, close cap, heat car up, leak stopped


supposedly.

6/27/2006 9:26:59 PM

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"yeah... i mean i'm sure it plugged 1/2 the radiator but it got the leak too."

I doubt that, I didn't put that much pepper in at all. Well fuck, the mechanic couldn't find the leak, what should I do?

6/27/2006 10:13:10 PM

i think he was talking about the egg

6/27/2006 10:24:48 PM

your car has 5 million miles on it pat, get a new fucking radiator

6/27/2006 10:26:08 PM

hehe, it'd be #3

Well, I'll just wait until it starts to leak again, then take it back.

6/27/2006 11:50:19 PM

or start scouring eBay for a replacement now since you know you'll be needing it.

6/28/2006 12:37:31 AM