Q: Is a coolant leak a byproduct of redlining a car for an extended amount of time?
My brother is learning to drive a stick and he drove home for about an hour in second gear. When he got home, the car had little to no coolant. Does it have a leak, or did he push it too hard?
My car has 218000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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