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If the car is fitted with an electric cooling fan, this may have failed.

A car moving will normally get enough air to keep the radiator cool.

I have known a water pump to be faulty, where the vanes have become detached

this causes lack of flow in the cooling system.

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Q: Why does your 1997 Trans am overheat while idling but not while driving?
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