2003 Chrysler PT Cruiser Could rear ender cause overheating

I have uploaded a picture of the area in question. You can see the aftermarket clamp. Before this car was sharply struck in this accident, the hose was attached, no coolant was leaking, and it had never overheated. Doesn't it stand to reason that the loss of coolant during the drive home caused the car to overheat? I know the sequence of what happened, and it does not ring true that the hose simply fell off or was blown off. I bekieve that the engine torqued rearward and in so doing pulled the hose off. Even if the hose were loose, and I am not saying it was, it was still the accident that caused it to come apart. Look at the photo and it should speak for itself.

I hope the photo posts this time.

I do not give negative feedback lightly. I also do not lie. What I described as happening is exactly what happened. If coolant was on the ground after the accident, my wife did not see it. She was in a dazed mental state. She was later diagnosed with a mild concussion and an injured back. She did report hearing some noise from the engine compartment. I heard the screeching sound the night I drove the car home. I did not think about it the next morning when we drove to the Post Office. After adding coolant, the car seemed to perform okay. I drove it to Corona a week or so later, and it overheated again and I had it towedback to Palm Springs. That is probably what finished the engine off. But the bottom line is that this problem ORIGINATED from the accident. A few years ago I bought a 1999 Mustang GT convertible. The parking brake came undone and the car rolled across the parking lot and almost into my office building. The Ford dealer could not reproduce the problem, and refused to fix the brake. About a year later, Ford issued a recall for the exact same problem. I told you the TRUTH. You just refuse to believe it. Why should I respond positively to that?

As it now stands, I have a vehicle which was perfectly okay before I took it on a trip to join a prestigious school for a PhD program, and was awarded that day a four year fellowship. I have two other cars which both run beautifully, and if I had known of any problem whatsoever with the Cruiser I would not have driven it to one of the most important occassions in my life. When the car overheated I had it towed to a dealer to determine the extent of the engine damage. The dealer claimed that someone must have tampered with the hose to cause it to come undone. That was NOT the case. I was here trying to at least get some objective traction for the possibility that what I said happened actually had happened, and perhaps you had heard of something similar before. In any event, you did not help at all. One other thing. I learned from the dealer that all my motor mounts were broken. I confirmed that later by noticing the amount of rattling coming from the engine at idle, and when it was placed in gear. These cars are absolute crap, and I truly hope Chrysler goes down the tubes for screwing the automotive public. They are getting what they deserve right now. The cooling system was perfectly fine before the wreck, and immediately afterwards fell to pieces. Hopefully what I am conveying to you will be a teachable moment.

THANK YOU

updated 10-26-09
Just so that you are aware, I did locate a reputable mechanic in Anaheim with a very well established business rebuilding engines who concurred that the way many front wheel drive cars are made, the drive train components "float", and when hit sharply this can cause the motor mounts to break and do other damage. Apparently this is exactly what happened to my Cruiser. I was victimized by the dealership who wanted to state otherwise, which would have jeopardized my insurance coverage. As I said earlier, Chrysler is getting what they deserve right now. Hopefully, they will soon fold up and go away.

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