Q: Car is overheating, fluids are full, radiator, thermostat, and water pump just replaced.
Car has been running fine. We just replaced the water pump, timing belt, thermostat, and radiator and the car has been running really well. All of a sudden the car starts overheating and all of the fluids are full. What could be causing the car to overheat now?
My car has an automatic transmission.
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