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My car is temperature gauge says it's overheating I filled it with coolant and oil but after a few minutes of driving the gauge is past the hot deadline and the place you put the oil in is smoking?
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∙ 15y ago
Could be a bad thermosat. The smoke could be from where you dripped oil onto the engine.
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