Mopar to ya
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I just bought my daughter a 2001 Mazda 626 a little less than a month ago. It had started giving her trouble starting recently. Then the heat would come and go, though the coolant was full. A few days ago the CEL came on and it had a random misfire code, though it was not misfiring at the time. Today on the way to work it started to overheat and she had no heat. I told her to watch the gauge and pull over if it got too hot and that I would come and trade cars with her. She never made it to work. It died at a stop light. I had it towed to my work and checked it out after hours. I got it started, but the coolant had the smell of death and exhaust was literally pouring out the radiator neck. I got it filled but it wouldn't bleed air as it was pumping exhaust into the coolant so fast it looked like a rapid boil in the radiator. Less than a thousand miles since I bought it, and now I have to do a freakin' head job. Pisses me off.