2000 chevy tracker is overheating!!!?

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If your vehicle is giving an occasional eewing sound, that would be a faulty water pump. It could also be a rusty residued radiator of which you can have it flushed clean or simply your fan or fan belt not working efficiently enough, of which you may clean & oiled it. The worst scenario would be a worn out/leaky engine gasket seal of which you might have to open the whole thing up. Gearbox overheating may also contribute. Best to get a mechanic to do a pressure test on these parts.
 
My 2000 chevy tracker temp gauge goes to red SOMETIMES when I am stopped in traffic and usually goes back to normal when I drive forward again. Other times when I'm stopped it stays in the normal range. It seems to be random and when I turn the heat on to try to bring the temp back to normal it doesn't seem to work. The only thing that brings it back to normal is moving forward. It hasn't overheated when I am driving (so far). I just bought this car about three days ago (not knowing it did this) and the radiator and water pump were supposedly already replaced. We replaced the thermostat last night and it might have been a bad one because I had no heat and it took forever to warm up. When it finally did and I drove it, the temp gauge went all the way to hot and stayed there. There is no white on the oil dipstick so I don't think I blew a headgasket (yet). Any ideas? Is this a common problem for this year and model car? If I fix it, is there a high probability that it is going to happen again? I need a dependable 4x4 for college so if this isn't going to be it, I need to get a new car ASAP.
 
It sounds like your water pump might be going bad. Next time it starts to overheat in traffic, put it in neutral and gun it (not too high, about 4500 or so), then drop it back down to idle, to get the pump working again.
 
It sounds like your water pump might be going bad. Next time it starts to overheat in traffic, put it in neutral and gun it (not too high, about 4500 or so), then drop it back down to idle, to get the pump working again.
 
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