Canon 550D Overheating, HELP!

My family (me being a son) go on a lot of holidays (on one right now) and we bought the 550D back in 2011 in Malaysia.
Just recently when i try to take a video it just overheats after a few seconds (2-5 secs) and then it crashes. This never happened before and now we are stuck using 3 x $200 cameras and smartphones to take videos (4K with a note 3 isn't too shabby though but that file size). Taking images is fairly fine although it does tend to overheat as well which sucks.
I tried it at different ambient temps (27, 20, -10 (celsius)).
At -10 it was on for the longest (1 min 18 secs) then it crashed due to heat issues.
Any fix or do i / we have to buy a new DSLR?

There is a red light which normally flashes to indicate that the camera is actively writing (or reading) to the memory card.  
The temperature warning is an icon which appears on the LCD screen.  Initially the camera will display an icon which resembles a bulb thermometer... but it will be white.  If the temperature continues to climb, the icon will switch to red.
This is described on page 139 of your owner's manual (you can also find it in the index under the topic "Temperature warning".)  
If you are not seeing this bulb-thermometer icon (white or red) on the LCD screen, but are instead seeing the flashing red LED, this is not a temperature warning, but an indication of activity reading or writing to the memory card.
Tim Campbell
5D II, 5D III, 60Da

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