Where does the coolant go!

[Pimpin Dsmstyle]

91 talon tsi AWD. I haven't personally tried to figure out this problem because the car is not insured and I don't want to drive it.

Problem : Car runs out of coolant thus over heat.

Situation : I had the car for a few months and I never noticed any remote sort of over heating ( ran cool, constant) nor did I notice it losing any coolant. The car didn't leak anything, I was pretty sure of this!

My friend drove it for a few months without any problems. Then he brought it to Jet to get all of his performance work done. After my buddy picked up the car Jet mentioned that the car had no coolant and we should fix that. He filled it up and called it good. Car runs fine... sometime over winter the tools were out "drifting" in the snow and somehow broke the temp sensor wire that has 2 wires running to the white plug on the from of the T-Stat housing. They never fixed it.

As foolish as it is, several months later, that was still not fixed. The car started over heating after that. The kid ordered a toyo radiator that is still not in yet and the wire is STILL not fixed. The car pulls like an SOB so I have a hard time thinking it's the head gasket.

I'm going to fix that wire so I can actually see where the temp is ( I am extremely shocked they never fixed this). The over flow tank is similar to where it used to be but it is in front of the radiator fan since the IC piping was routed where a stock located overflow is.

Words of advice? Things to check? If you don't leak it.. and your head gasket is fine ( testing comp the only way to see?) WTF else could it be.