1993 Ciera 3.3 overheats.
Asked by JoelO1 May 14, 2014 at 03:54 PM about the 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera S Sedan FWD
Question type: Maintenance & Repair
My Ciera overheats when sitting in traffic for long periods of time Happen twice. It's got 110,00. It doesn't burn oil. It doesn't smoke.Runs great that is the only issue I have had with it.
5 Answers
Thanks, that's what a couple of other people said too.
Deffinantly cooling fan my 92 is doing the same thing opened hood while car was running and started over heating fan woulddnt kick on gave it a little push with screw driver and fan started spinnig and engine cooled back down
Thanks. I will try that.
Check your fan relay. Its located under the hood, right behind the passenger side head light. Should be 4 little grey or black relay boxes. You can unsnap them and test them. The connecter that the relay snaps onto can go out as well. I just went through that with mine. The fan still needed to be replaced, so Idk if the fan went out and it blew the relay fuse and connector, or the other way around.
My 93 Olds Cutlass Ciera has this problem. Mentioned above; "the cooling fan doesn't come on when it should". Of course the cooling fan is not coming on but WHY?? I replaced the radiator, water pump, thermostat, engine coolant temp sensor, engine coolant temp sensor gage and 2 fan relays. The fan does come on when I turn the AC on but the highspeed cooling fan doesn't turn on when the car reaches maximum temperature and the car then proceeds to overheat; this occurs only in an idle or slow speed situation; the temperature is just fine when the car is up to speed and the AC works fine. Someone mentioned an AC clutch switch but doubtful because the ac works fine. Does anyone know anything??? this has really got me down