Wow. I think that's what it was. Unfortunately, the guy doesn't get into discussing what this does to the cooling system. I'll post there and see what happens. Maybe you guys know? In my situation, it seems that coolant flow was blocked, i.e., the eventual coolant light going on. According to the manual, it says it's a coolant level light but does not indicate it has anything to do with temperature. I think it doesn't, because by the time the light came on, the temp was no longer near the red. Could blockage/failure in the heater core be a potential?

P.S. These cars can kind of strand you for the weirdest reasons. I once lost all power and had to pull over on the freeway. It turned out some kind of switchover valve in the gas tank had failed. Thus I had gas, engine was fine, but it couldn't get the gas.

By the way, all the fans were doing their job as they were going on full bore (you could hear them) and not letting the temp go too far into the red. Ali, I don't know exactly what you mean.....95 is no where near the 120 mark on my gauge. I'm almost 100% sure this happened within a couple of minutes...at the most.