Q: Low coolant?

asked by on January 04, 2017

it was very cold out i warmed my car up for 10 minutes drove about 5 miles and it overheated i stopped then put antifreeze in it and drove the rest of the way to work it did not heat up again

My car has 200000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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