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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.
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Why radiator overflow bottle melted?
Bad radiator fluid.
Do you check radiator fluid when car hot or cold?
Do it when the car is cold if the radiator is hot fluid may be forced out when you take off the cap.
The smell of radiator coolant as the car is running?
Theres a leak. Probably a hose but could be radiator or heater core, water pump or engine core plug
What happens if you have a hole in your radiator?
Your car will leak anti-freeze/coolant. If you run out of fluid in your radiator then your car will overheat in a short period and cause much more damage. Fix your radiator!
What does it mean when green fluid is leaking from your vehicle?
Antifreeze is green in color and is leaking from your radiator .
Why do you smell radiator fluid and windows fog up?
heater core is going bad.
Where does radiator fluid go?
Unless your radiator has a leak, the radiator fluid stays in the radiator.
Which is better water or radiator fluid?
radiator fluid
Why your 2006 Toyota raw4 has water on the passenger floor front?
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.
Where is the radiator to put fluid for 2001 jetta?
Where is the radiator to put fluid for 2001 jetta?
Carbon monoxide smell from radiator?
Carbon monoxide has no smell.
How do you fill radiator fluid for Mazda MPV?
you have to put the radiator fluid in the overflow. This is the only way.
How can you tell if the heater core in your car is leaking?
foggy windows on passenger side.... smell of antifreeze in car... lost of radiator fluid.. lose of power..
What is radiator fluid?
Antifreeze
Why radiator overflow bottle melted?
Bad radiator fluid.
What happens when Transmission fluid leaks into the radiator?
You replace the radiator
What causes transmission fluid to leak into radiator?
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
