i need car help any help at all!?

[!Marine Wife!]

so i was told my belts need to be replaced. which i will when i get a second and they aren't closed. today when i was driving to work. my temp gage kept going up. mostly when i was driving slowly. so i had to have the heat on all day. would my belts have anything to do with that?? any help would be greatly greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[Brad]

Yep, one of the belts probably runs the water pump, which moves water around the engine which cools it. Get those taken care of ASAP.