Q: My Cars temperature needle is going crazy.
When I drive my car, it heats up like normal but over time the temperature needle goes past the middl bar and is a quarter of the way from being red. I changed the thermostat, changed the temperature sensor plugs and changed the radiator fan motor and nothing is working. Its frankly very very stressful
My car has an automatic transmission.
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