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02 legacy (L) Overheat issues


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Hey there folks I come to you with an issue on a friends car. He as an 02 Legacy (L) and its has like 208k miles on it. It has this issue where if he is going uphill with his ac on his car overheats and shuts down. Anyone know about this? He recently flushed his coolant to try and fix this but it was no good.
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Auto or Manual transmission? Could be:

  1. A blocked radiator, especially if non-Subaru-specific coolant has been used over the lifetime of the car.
  2. If auto, transmission cooler in the radiator could be leaking (not good for the radiator, engine or the transmission, and flushing hot fluid into the radiator
  3. Auto Transmission fluid could be bad, causing the transmission to work harder, causing extra heat, causing the transmission to overheat the radiator
  4. Cooling fan temperature switch bad
  5. Cooling fan(s) fuse blown
  6. Cooling fan(s) bad/defective
  7. Auto transmission slipping and heating up the trans cooler (see 3 above)
  8. Most likely - head gaskets blown

SBT

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