If you’ve ever been driving a car when its engine overheated, you know that it’s not a pretty picture. Standing by the side of the road staring forlornly at your smoking engine compartment while you wait for the tow truck is not anyone’s idea of fun (we don’t think, anyway). Still, the moment that you see that ticker start to register up in the red area, there’s little you can do but panic.

Avoiding engine overheating is best done as a series of preventative measures (to be taken before you overheat – not after), which is why your Nissan Pathfinder Radiator is so important. Your radiator is probably the single most important component in keeping your engine cool – so don’t skimp out on it or expect it to be self-monitoring.

If you let your radiator fall into disrepair, a terribly overheated engine will put you in line for severe, expensive fixes to many of your car’s systems – so the best solution is to never go there. Your Nissan Pathfinder Radiator is located beneath the hood of your car, just behind the grille.

Here, it and the coolant fluid stored within its pipes and tubes are kept cool by the constant onrush of outside air that enters through the grille openings when the car is in motion. The coolant fluid, a mix of water and antifreeze, is pumped from the cool radiator to the hot engine compartment by means of a water pump. Here, it absorbs much of the heat energy produced by the internal combustion engine, then returns to the radiator. Back in the radiator, heat energy is dispersed into the air or redirected into the heating system of the passenger cabin (which is why last-ditch efforts to avoid an overheated engine generally include blasting the heat). Don’t take any chances with your Nissan Pathfinder Radiator.Install a new one today and have confidence that your engine will be kept cool.