Best Car Air Conditioning Repair in Stillwater, OK

Ole man winter is on his way again. Are you ready? Is your car ready? Anti-freeze or Coolant is a vital fluid. Without it, your car’s engine cannot stand very low or very high temperatures. Anti-freeze has a freezing point, or a specific temperature it can drop to before the fluid freezes, and a boiling point—the highest temperature the fluid can reach before it begins to boil. If you have looked at your temperature gauge in your instrument cluster or Driver Information Center, you can see the engine temperature usually stays at about 200 degrees. While there are many components of your car’s cooling/heating system, hoses are generally considered one of the “weakest” points. Radiator hoses and heater hoses transport the anti-freeze in its circuit, which includes the water pump, thermostat, engine, radiator, overflow tank (or reservoir) and heater core. You may not know that your radiator hoses wear from the inside out. Follow me here. Hot, 200+ degree anti-freeze flowing through rubber hoses—over time the hot fluid is going to wear away the integrity of the hose. If your hoses feel soft, now you know why. You also know that you should replace them as a preventive measure. They are weak and could fail at any point. Hoses are pretty inexpensive versus the cost of a tow, or compounded damage from losing coolant and overheating the engine. Come by Waterloo Auto Service and let our trained technicians check out your cooling system. Maybe we can help you avoid a catastrophe.