What could be wrong with my car?

ROBERTBIXLER

MEMBER
2000 SATURN
3.0L
V6
FWD
AUTOMATIC
180,000 MILES

I got my car back out of pawn this week. It was placed in pawn in May 2014. I get to my car and there is like 2inches of sitting water in the floor boards on the driver side, they left the Windows down. Vapor like mist was coming from my heater vents. Fog was not going away from the windows. He said he had water in it. I knew this was a problem cause before I pawned it I had a slow leak from the antifreeze. Refill about every3 days but still had good temperature and ran back and forth to workll an hour each way no problem unless I needed to add a little water. When I go it out of pawn I drive this car going back to my home and it doesn't last 10 miles before everything just stopped. Lights didn't but power steering and when I put water in the reservoir I heard hissing by the engine. My email is thebixmix007@Gmail. Com of I need more details

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MHPAUTOS

MECHANIC
31,937 POSTS

The first thing that you need to do is locate the coolant leak, you can get the cooling system pressure tested at any work shop, this takes only a few minuets to do and this will help locate any external coolant leaks, get these fixed first and report back what the car is doing when coolant leaks are rectified.