{"id":246320,"date":"2010-01-29T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/technical-stuff\/74520-i20-overheats-engine-knocks-coolant-boils-flows-out.html"},"modified":"2010-01-29T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:56:11","slug":"i20-overheats-engine-knocks-coolant-boils-and-flows-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246320","title":{"rendered":"i20 Overheats | Engine Knocks | Coolant Boils and Flows Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The car in concern is i20 Asta, 6 months old and has covered 6500 Kilometers till date. <\/p>\n<p>The car was stuck in slow moving traffic for about a Kilometre and when it was stationary after travelling about 800 meters, the engine started knocking and simultaneously the temperature reached the maximum level. Upon checking the coolant box after travelling further 200 meters, Coolant was boiling &amp; flowing out of the box. AC was not is use during the entire journey of about 25 Kilometers.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime back while using AC, we switched between Hot mode and Cold mode (I can&#8217;t remember exactly whether it was Hot to Cold or Vice-Versa), the temperature suddenly rose and upon switching off the AC, the temperature was Normal. I also remember the car had driven over a big hump or a big Pothole during this or prior to this event.<\/p>\n<p>Please suggest what could be the possible cause, the car is being taken to the Service Center tomorrow but I wish to have some knowledge before I handover the car to the Service Center.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in Advance!<br \/>\nTanveer Singh<\/p>\n<p>PS: I checked the existing related threads but almost all of them had AC in use.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car in concern is i20 Asta, 6 months old and has covered 6500 Kilometers till date. The car was stuck in slow moving traffic for about a Kilometre and when it was stationary after travelling about 800 meters, the engine started knocking and simultaneously the temperature reached the maximum level. Upon checking the coolant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}