Why would my car overheat after an oil change?
While you are checking for anything hanging under the hood, check for unhooked hoses or hoses that are leaking. Also check your coolant levels. Depends on the garage and what all they do, but sometimes they check or drain and fill the coolant. Make sure they put enough back in and that it is the correct mixture.
There are lots of things that could have either been disconnected while they were working on it or that could have just quit afterwords. I agree with most of the other posts.
Good luck on finding the problem.
Why would my car overheat after an oil change?
sounds like they forgot to put oil in or a faulty filter that is not letting the oil circulate, by the way did you install a vw filter most after market filters don't work well on vw engines
might not be the mechanic's fault. your thermostat might have gotten stuck or the water pump gave out. Since i have not seen the car I couldn't do more than guess, but the trouble will definitely be in your cooling system.
Is it really overheating or is the guage just reading high? Open the hood and smell the engine...you can tell if it's really hot. If there's smoke coming from the tailpipe it could be they overfilled the engine
They may have disconnected some of the sensors or the fan motor while working on the engine and forgot to put them back.
Pop the hood and have a look for anything just hanging loose.
sabotage!!!
