Q: loosing coolant
started the car and went to check coolant temp on hidden menu as i always do and noticed it was coming up with ttt it never usually does this i drove for around 2 mins and noticed the fan was on but the car had not been running long enough for the fan to be on. went back home and noticed there was no fluid in coolant resoviour so topped this up and started car drove around for a bit came back and the fluid had went down i could not see any leaks coming from the car.
My car has 70000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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