If a car overheats, and then has problems starting: what would be the problem?
it depends on how badly it overheated … Older cars, with iron blocks would usually just blow head gaskets, intake gaskets, or even “spin” the bearings on the crankshaft, or just seize up – newer cars with aluminum blocks can do all that, but they’re also more prone to warp a cylinder. Some cars with timing belts will “burn” the belt, where the belt may not actually burn, the extra heat on the engine can cause the belt to stretch and make it more likely to jump a tooth, or if the timing belt were real old, it would make it more brittle and cause it to crack and break off. without knowing how hot it got, how long you ran it that way, and what symptoms of the starting problems are it’s too tough to diagnose.
