My car making ticking noise and died.

Asked by Sylvia Dec 29, 2020 at 03:13 PM about the 2000 Ford Taurus SE

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I was driving and the temp gauge was
below cold and it started making a
ticking noise and it got louder and and
it lost compression and then the temp
went to hot and it died and smke was
boiling with smke

2 Answers

41,460

How do you know you lost compression? Oil light on? Low on oil? Sounds like you need a new engine and or vehicle.

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Sounds like you had a major coolant loss. When that happens the gauge on the dash won't always show it. The reason for this is the sending unit of the temperature gauge is designed to be submerged in coolant to measure the liquid temperature. When you have a major coolant loss the sending unit is no longer submerged in coolant and isn't measuring any temperature. So the gauge drops to cold. Since you continued to drive it until it died I think TDolby is right. You probably did major damage to the engine that's not worth fixing on a 21 year old vehicle! Sorry! Jim

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