Q: My car has white smoke coming from up under the hood and leaking at the bottom. When I looked under the hood it looked as somethin

asked by on February 03, 2018

When I start the car to warm up, there is heavy exuasht coming from the muffler. When I go to cut the car off there is a lot of smoke coming from the hood as well as leakage from the bottom

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