If you are smelling the sweet but unpleasant aroma of antifreeze, your vehicle is leaking it somewhere. A lot of the time the culprit is the water pump. They have a weep hole and when the bearing starts to fail it will begging leaking from this hole.
I would start by getting myself a flashlight and start scanning your engine's water hoses for a leak. Check the mail hoses going to/from the radiator as well as the heater hoses leading to the firewall. Do you smell the antifreeze odor INSIDE the car? If so, it could be your heater core that's failing.
heater core is going bad.
Unless your radiator has a leak, the radiator fluid stays in the radiator.
radiator fluid
Is the colour of the fluid green? or red, or does it smell? that's a definite sign that radiator coolant is finding its way onto your floor from the radiator, and if you let it continue and don't top up the radiator fluid inside the engine bay, your engine will overheat and die. Sounds to me like a heater radiator leak, don't drive the car until you are regularly checking the level of the fluid in the radiator and get it to a mechanic to swap that radiator out for a new one. and in addition get the mechanic to flush out the radiator fluid for new stuff.
few things is can be one blow head gasket two crack head cylinder, I had that problem too smelled gas in the coolant found out the head gasket was worn out and letting coolant and oil mix in the combustion chamber
foggy windows on passenger side.... smell of antifreeze in car... lost of radiator fluid.. lose of power..
Where is the radiator to put fluid for 2001 jetta?
you have to put the radiator fluid in the overflow. This is the only way.
Cracked radiator end caps since the tranny fluid runs goes threw the caps for cooling that is the only way tranny fluid can get in the radiator
You replace the radiator
Bad radiator fluid.
Antifreeze