Q: I have smoke coming from the box in front of the condenser

asked by on October 03, 2016

I just bought the truck and it was fine for the 2 hour drive from the dealership to my house but when I started it to go to my grandma's house, smoke started coming out of the front

My car has 128000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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