Q: My car starts to overheat when I run the AC and when it's only an idle mode are you put in a new water pump and in a new used engi
I recently put in a new used engine and water pump it was doing fine now I had when I ran the AC it would leak on the passenger side it quit leaking but now when I would run the AC at the car runs over the halfway mark about one or two bars and then it doesn't run hot if I don't run the AC what do I need to do to fix this
My car has 160000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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