Q: Coolant
I put coolant in my car Tuesday morning and I was driving it around blasting the AC and a light of a coolant light came on on my dashboard on Thursday and Friday more evening I was driving it around the temperature gauge went up and it was almost it did not pass the red line so I stop the car I check the coolant there was nothing inside the coolant so I hurry up and drove it home and left it there I put another coolant in it first then came back and still same thing but there's no smoke I'm trying to figure out what the problem is I hope you can help me I'm losing coolant to my car
My car has 24567980 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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