For the first time ever, I'm overheating...
Yeah...
Last night, on my way home, I noticed steam/smoke coming from under the hood. I looked at my temperature gauge and it was all the way past the H. The check engine light popped on too. I pulled over and popped the hood, and there was some serious heat coming out of there. I started the car back up and drove home like this, but mind you there were no problems at all. If there wasn't any smoke, and no check engine light, I never would've noticed a problem.
Now, in my accident my radiator got hit, but no visible damage. I did notice, though, that my coolant resevior was empty. It's possble that I had a leak somewhere. So today, I put water in the resevior, like my father told me I should do a while ago, and drove around for like five minutes. No heat problems. I decided to give it some gas and see what happens, so I did, and within about 6 seconds the temp gauge went wild. What was odd, though, is that when I let go of the gas, about 2 seconds later the gauge went back to in the middle. I gave it gas again and it jumped up again. Still no obvious driving problems, though.
Possible diagnosis/resolution??
Thanks.