my car overheated and i need a new heater hose because of a leak. they ran a combustion check and it failed. they said i need a new engine or i need to replace the gasket on top and hope there are no further cracks. She said that fluid and oil are mixing together and if i try to drive the car the engine will lock up. is this true? The mechanic told me i could buy bluedevil and it will probably fix it for a couple of months, which will at least buy me some time. Is there any way i could just replace the hose and not the engine or will the car not run? I have a Volkswagen 2003 Passat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
my car overheated and i need a new heater hose because of a leak. they ran a combustion check and it failed. they said i need a new engine or i need to replace the gasket on top and hope there are no further cracks. She said that fluid and oil are mixing together and… Read More »Volkswagen Passat 2003<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11573,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[10107],"class_list":["post-27293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volkswagen","tag-passat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}