{"id":119,"date":"2016-07-13T19:06:31","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.athemes.com\/botiga\/?p=119"},"modified":"2025-10-06T06:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:49:33","slug":"buying-extra-time-when-your-car-is-overheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Buying extra time when your car is overheating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Posted by&nbsp;Nik Ang&nbsp;on 13th Jul 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some vehicle manufacturers might have by-passed it for their markets in the temperate regions. However, most models with climate control or A\/C heating options are fitted with&nbsp;a heater core. Besides, providing warmth during winter months and warm up for Bikram style yogis. It can be used to cool a overheating engine but only momentary.. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Scenario<\/strong>: Lets say&#8230; you are racing someone to the checkered flag for&nbsp;honor&nbsp;and glory but realized that your temperature gauge is already in the reds for nobody knows how long its been there! Not sure if a hose or the radiator might blow up&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Solution<\/strong>: Quickly turn your A\/C heater &#8220;ON&#8221;. This releases about half a liter if &#8220;cooler&#8221; coolant into the overheating system, to buy you some time to reach the finish line with no hardware damage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this situation, the heater core acted like a secondary radiator. As it is very small and not positioned for optimum heat transfer it is&nbsp;really&nbsp;not meant to cool the engine but to warm up the cabin. But during desperate moments like this can save you some inconvenience. Fine.. there aren&#8217;t any checkered flags along the streets of Singapore to chase down.. but this method will definitely buy you enough time to not break down in a fast lane. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.bigcommerce.com\/server2700\/apz2cc3\/product_images\/uploaded_images\/cooling-system.gif?t=1468379632\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by&nbsp;Nik Ang&nbsp;on 13th Jul 2016 Some vehicle manufacturers might have by-passed it for their markets in the temperate regions. However, most models with climate control or A\/C heating options [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[61,64,67,65,62,66,63,68],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-c-heating","tag-coolant","tag-engine-overheat","tag-evans-coolants","tag-heater-core","tag-overheat","tag-radiator","tag-road-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tec-hub.com.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}