Q: My car runs hot all the time ever since I bought it??

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Nick

on September 30, 2016

I have a 2002 Acura rsx type s and I noticed that ever since I bought it the temperature needle stays above the middle line and is near the H symbol,it's never over heated before and I've driven it long distance before, lately it's been sucking coolent and I even noticed a coolent puddle on the floor so I replaced the radiator and got some brand new hoses,cap, and coolent lines, a new thermostat,as well as the proper coolent from the factory. I noticed that there was coolent as far as where the belt is and there was some coolent on the water pump and all over the ac compressor,My thermostat hadn't been fully tightened so I'm thinking. Maybe that's why coolent was everywhere but i tightened it and bled the air out the system and it still runs hot, what could be the problem? My ac goes from dry to cold air randomly I don't know if that means anything I have a new ac compressor for that though, but yea it runs hot and I really need some answers to this, please help!!!

My car has 165579 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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