Q: Over heating after 5mins of driving

asked by on February 24, 2017

I got the water pump and thermostat and cap and valve all replaced. Now the issue is it wants to over heat within 5 mins of driving it, we burped it at least 20 time this week. Checked the pressure test this summer on the head gaskets and it tested out fine. Running out of ideas of what could be wrong, if you know please let me know.

My car has 153000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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