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Thank you Johnny for respnding! Water pump was not replaced. Since water and coolant was replaced my car has not leaked a drop nor has my car even come close to getting hot. This worry has me for the last 3 weeks. I listen to one mechanic and he told me that I need a new water punp. I dont know what to think some times! I almost had the water punp and the timing belt replaced last week. Instead I got ripped off by another mechanic who bought a new water pump and then said I dont need one. But he sayes he still replaced my timing belt be cause he said I would need one anyways in 10000. I really feel there is nothing ever wrong except very low coolant. But I still worry because I dont want my car to heat up. I trust people and I dont know if I have a new timing belt or not. Hope you can respond.

Absent some kind of a problem, coolant is not something you should be loosing. When you fill up the system, it may have air trapped in the internal passages somewhere and you need to 'Burp" it out of the system. Usually there is a little bleeder valve(s) at the high point in the system for this purpose. If you don't, it will likely cause the engine to overheat. When it overheats, the coolant boils over, and the system looses fluid.. If the car is more than a couple years old, you may want to try something as simple as replacing the radiator cap? Why? Well, (1) it is cheap and, (2) you can easily change it yourself when the engine is cold. The cap's job is to hold pressure in the system when the coolant heats up. Once the pressue get's too high, then the cap allows the pressure to blow off and you loose fluid. The trick is though, as the cap wears out due to many heating and cooling cycles, it starts to blow off steam at lower pressure. Cooling system failures have many possible causes, but this is the least expensive one. I don't like to randomly throw parts at a car, but for $5, it is worth a try.

Regards,

Brian C.

Thank you for your responce. I already took my car to the shop last summer. I had the water pump put in,new belt new radiater cap, they said my 2little fans were not working radiater flush and new fluid. A month maybe more my car smells like anti freeze sure enough when I got home after a little later a leak again on the same side of the car up front right side. I have been making sure my car is not getting hot. There was no coolant in my resivore at all. Since then I have just been filling my car up with water until I can take my car in. So now what could be wrong now? I cant even go 2 months with out radiater fluid leaking from my car. Hope you can give a responce soon thank you.