REGULARLS8
LVC Member
Hello Everyone, let me start off my saying this is my first post, I subscribed to LVC a few weeks ago. Also, I started a new thread because I couldn't find anything helpful in other threads and the oned I did I bookmarked.
A little bit about me: I'm 19 years old, car enthusiast, novice mechanic. When I say novice I mean novice, I know a bit about cars but not a lot. My first car was a free 95 civic that I never drove, I sold the ugly thing, bought myself the love of my life, an 85 Corvette. 10 months later, reality set in, I had to sell it, too expensive to restore and not worth restoring. Bought a 95 Camaro. Too many problems, sold it a week later. Now I have a 2000 Lincoln LS I got from my brother before my high school graduation.
So I got my Lincoln from my brother who only had it for a few months but without problems, He even drove it to new Mexico and back to California with no problems. However, the car has had the check engine light on since I legally and officially owned it. I have a code reader, The Lincoln shows codes P0171 and P0174. My brother was told by a "mechanic" it was the maf sensor, So I replaced it and no luck. The car started making fan noises pretty much since I owned it, as if the fan was working too hard or spinning too fast, this happened only when the car was running for a few minutes. I heard it mostly when I stepped on the throttle at low speeds. Like in a stop sign or a red light, or looking for parking in a parking lot. I probably didn't hear it at high speeds because of wind noise and road noise and other cars, etc...
One day in a warm day like 85-90 degrees, the car overheated terribly, I drove from my house to my girlfriend's house (drove 2 miles) after picking her up we went to a store ( drove another 6-8 miles) from that store we drove across the street to the mall and looked for a parking space. We parked and went inside, after coming back to the Lincoln the car was incredibly hot, I blamed it on the weather, and the car had no ac, I think I need to refill it. So we just rolled our windows down. We were on our way back home but we had to stop at Mcdonald's to get her mom a burger (drove from mall to mcdonalds around 6 miles). I took the drive thru, I waited quite a while in the drive thru. once on the street, I got the the red light, I noticed smoke coming out from under the hood, I took the right lane instead and went into a gas station (not a smart move when a car might catch on fire), opened the hood and saw that the reservoir behind the front wheel was boiling the liquid, Is that the coolant? or maybe it was not boiling it might have just been spilling it. And it did spill it all. we waited for the car to cool down, bough like 4 large bottles of water and cool the car down, I set the ac to circulate from the fan to help the car cool down. I poured some of the water on the now empty reservoir. We decided to drive to my house, instead of calling her cousins tow truck. Since my house was only like half a mile away. The car made it home, I parked it and her mom came and picked her up, It was quite embarrassing since they drive an old aerostart with 600,xxx miles, and my luxurious, good looking Lincoln broke down.
Can anybody help? I really need my car soon because I have a job interview and I might start working soon.
The car is a 2000 Lincoln LS V8 with 108,xxx miles.
Since that happened like 3 weeks ago I hadn't done much to the car, besides wash it, its been sitting in my garage for the past 3 weeks. SORRY FOR THE LONG THREAD, ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED.
A little bit about me: I'm 19 years old, car enthusiast, novice mechanic. When I say novice I mean novice, I know a bit about cars but not a lot. My first car was a free 95 civic that I never drove, I sold the ugly thing, bought myself the love of my life, an 85 Corvette. 10 months later, reality set in, I had to sell it, too expensive to restore and not worth restoring. Bought a 95 Camaro. Too many problems, sold it a week later. Now I have a 2000 Lincoln LS I got from my brother before my high school graduation.
So I got my Lincoln from my brother who only had it for a few months but without problems, He even drove it to new Mexico and back to California with no problems. However, the car has had the check engine light on since I legally and officially owned it. I have a code reader, The Lincoln shows codes P0171 and P0174. My brother was told by a "mechanic" it was the maf sensor, So I replaced it and no luck. The car started making fan noises pretty much since I owned it, as if the fan was working too hard or spinning too fast, this happened only when the car was running for a few minutes. I heard it mostly when I stepped on the throttle at low speeds. Like in a stop sign or a red light, or looking for parking in a parking lot. I probably didn't hear it at high speeds because of wind noise and road noise and other cars, etc...
One day in a warm day like 85-90 degrees, the car overheated terribly, I drove from my house to my girlfriend's house (drove 2 miles) after picking her up we went to a store ( drove another 6-8 miles) from that store we drove across the street to the mall and looked for a parking space. We parked and went inside, after coming back to the Lincoln the car was incredibly hot, I blamed it on the weather, and the car had no ac, I think I need to refill it. So we just rolled our windows down. We were on our way back home but we had to stop at Mcdonald's to get her mom a burger (drove from mall to mcdonalds around 6 miles). I took the drive thru, I waited quite a while in the drive thru. once on the street, I got the the red light, I noticed smoke coming out from under the hood, I took the right lane instead and went into a gas station (not a smart move when a car might catch on fire), opened the hood and saw that the reservoir behind the front wheel was boiling the liquid, Is that the coolant? or maybe it was not boiling it might have just been spilling it. And it did spill it all. we waited for the car to cool down, bough like 4 large bottles of water and cool the car down, I set the ac to circulate from the fan to help the car cool down. I poured some of the water on the now empty reservoir. We decided to drive to my house, instead of calling her cousins tow truck. Since my house was only like half a mile away. The car made it home, I parked it and her mom came and picked her up, It was quite embarrassing since they drive an old aerostart with 600,xxx miles, and my luxurious, good looking Lincoln broke down.
Can anybody help? I really need my car soon because I have a job interview and I might start working soon.
The car is a 2000 Lincoln LS V8 with 108,xxx miles.
Since that happened like 3 weeks ago I hadn't done much to the car, besides wash it, its been sitting in my garage for the past 3 weeks. SORRY FOR THE LONG THREAD, ANY HELP IS MUCH APPRECIATED.
