Originally Posted By: ram_man
Originally Posted By: philipp10
I don't agree you need to change your thermostat. Changing the thermostat sounds great till you think, what about the water pump, the belts, the hoses....the list never ends.
I would say though, teach you Mom, GF and every other key turner in the family that when a car over-heats....shut it down, no excuses.
Sounds great in theory but sometimes you cannot just pull over rush hour traffic would be an example and so would a two lane back road with no shoulders at night . Sometimes you can of just pull over or shut it off.
Yes, to me it's worth having the blown head gasket as that's better than being run over. She was on the I-10 (biggest Interstate in Arizona) in the heart of rush-hour traffic in downtown Phoenix, where we have over 4 million people, she was limited to where she could pull over.