driving down the road and smelled something

I have a 94 ford contour, was driving down the road and smelled something so I started to slow down to check it out. As I did so I looked at all my gauges, well the temp gauge had dropped, obviously not reading any thing. As I pulled over the car shut off.

Within the couple of Weeks prior to happening just had oil changed filter, air filter and spark plugs changed.

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