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Asked by ageofthesage Sep 23, 2013 at 10:46 PM about the Mercedes-Benz 500-Class

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I ran it for about 20 minutes today. I tried to jump start another car
with a dead battery.  It over heated and almost reached the red line
heat mark on the gauge. What can be the cause of this? It sat in
storage from 2002 til a few weeks ago.

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Ronc258 answered 10 years ago

Stuck thermastat or the electict cooling fan is not kicking in

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Ronc258 answered 10 years ago

low on coolent is another thing to check since it was in storage that long could all so need a radiator flush

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ageofthesage answered 10 years ago

Thanks. It was low. I added a gallon of filtered water and it didn't get hot after I ran it. I will schedule flush with auto shop.

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