Q: My car over heated 4 times and there is a loud rattle noise coming from the right hand side .

asked by on October 08, 2017

I have a ford mondeo 2008 not Ford Focus . Large rattling noise from right hand side when idle and stopping at signal Car over heats 4 times , stop car to cool down , Then took it home . Acceleration was slow and rpm was high when only pressing little .

My car has 167000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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