Similar trouble here but a lot worse.
My PT ('03 GT 5 Speed 27k miles) is at the stealer, they are charging me with 600 bucks for a new radiator and its supports, a month ago the problem started without any visible leak and the gauge reading always the middle point, the radiator fan became so loud that sometimes i couldn't hear the engine i checked the coolant deposit and opened the radiator cap both dry, poured like a gallon of bottled water with coolant at 40%, the situation reapeated once a week until the past week arriving to the park lot i noticed a spot under the car and liquid dripping, driving back to home after 5 miles the noise comming from the fan was really loud that everybody was staring at me on the lights but all the time the temp gauge was at the middle mark until that moment the gauge started to move to the red slowly and just few feet from home the beeping and the temp light came on.
After 2 days of diagnose the tech told me that the radiator had a crack and it needs to be changed with both supports (upper and lower).
My question is: How the radiator got the crack without being hit directly?
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