Your car’s radiator cooling system is effectively a heat exchanger, it operates by reducing the temperature of your engine’s coolant.
Designed to use a series of narrow tubes that will quickly disperse heat and help maintain the optimum temperature for your engine. They’re usually placed at the front of an engine as they constitute the vehicle’s primary cooling system. As your vehicle is moving the flow of air helps with the overall cooling process.
A fully functioning radiator should receive a continuous flow of coolant that passes through the radiator as hot liquid and exits at a cooler temperature. This process is vital to maintaining the correct temperature in your engine bay. Most engines use centrifugal pumps to maximize the rate at which the liquid flows through your radiator.
Featuring channels of honeycomb-shaped tubes radiators are also designed to draw cooler air from the front of the vehicle and this process is accelerated to the use of a cooling fan.
The importance of coolant to a radiator cooling system
Ensuring that your car is coolant level is maintained is vital to prevent your engine from overheating. If you want to avoid sitting on the side of the road as steam flows from underneath the bonnet of your car, there are a number of preventative measures you should take. First and foremost is checking your car’s coolant level. To do this you need to know where your coolant reservoir is and what is the optimum level you should keep it at to prevent any issues with overheating.
How do you know you are having issues with your radiator?
Car radiator problems are not unusual, like any other part of your vehicle it will require regular maintenance to prevent faults from occurring such as:
Failed Water Pumps
As the water pump attached to your radiator is constantly in use when your car is running it’s hardly surprising that this will fail on occasion and it is the most common fault that can happen with your car radiator. Pompous designed to move your coolant around your engine block and force to the radiator to keep it cool
Your radiator has a hole or crack
Holes in pranks you can occasionally form on car radiators. They are usually down to basic wear and tear as occasional deposits can build up in the cooling system. Sometimes he stray object from the road can burst your radiator
The Thermostat is faulty
This can be one of the most frustrating problems when you have a fault with your engine control unit and it tells you that your radiator is overheating. It disrupts the flow of coolant to the radiator itself. Whatever the issue with your faulty thermostat, while annoying is not difficult to fix.
Hoses leaking
As you probably established at this point car radiator systems are liquid-based cooling systems and use hoses to distribute coolant. If one of these cracks causing a leak this could result in a system failure in your radiator cooling system.
If you have any questions with regard to your car’s radiator you should contact a mechanic immediately and they will be able to advise you on how to troubleshoot specific problems and avoid more serious issues
