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Old Oct 29, 2004
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Sounds like water stored in my engine bay

Sounds like water stored in my engine bay when I accelerate slowly.

Now to give you a little back round my car was hit while parked on the dirver side front bumper and fender was dented. Anyway the bodyshop (Imperial Auto Design, in Mississauga) did an absolutly Garbage JOB. One of the problem is that the gap between the hood and the fender is more then factory, keeping this in mind, it has been raing 24/7 for the past week so my guess is that through that gap water got into the engine bay are and is just sitting there. Since it sounds like water stored in my engine bay when I accelerate slowly.

Please some technical guru tell me if I am wrong and if so what can it be.

Thank you for reading.
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hard to say for sure, but is it a sloshing sound or a gurrgle? gurrgle could be air trapped in cooling system, sloshing would mean there is some trapped water some how somehwere
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interestingly enough I have the same problem ...
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well.. give it a couple of sunny days and leaving it in the sun... if it aint gone by then u might have a problem
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It's air in the coolant lines. When the car is cold, open the radiator cap and start the car. Rev it until the engine reaches operating temp. Wait for the fans to come on several times and you'll see the bubbles coming to the surface. You can also switch on the A/C to do this. After 5-10 mins, almost all the bubbles should be gone. When I had a coolant flush, it sounded just like what you described.
 
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