Q: Over heating and leaking under my driver seat?

asked by on July 31, 2017

My car over heated after my oil change. I was in traffic on the highway and then finally started moving and then my dashboard read engine hit ac off then it said engine power reduced luckily this happened as I was coming to an exit so I was exiting because well I was kind of scared and finally as I was exciting the freeway it went into engine idle. I pulled over n I had no coolant in resiviore and radiator. So I added coolant 1.5 containers to he exact. Then about a minute or so after it was leaking but not from radiator rather it was from under driver seat side. I tried to drive it home but I got the same readings again so I pulled over again and had it towed instead. What could be going on?

My car has 122000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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