Coolant smell, I need to get rid of it...
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Coolant smell, I need to get rid of it...
Several weeks ago I had a coolant leak. The car is fix and running fine but I still have that smell when the car gets warm. How can I get rid of it?
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I had the same smell - overflow onto hot exhaust and it burns off. Check your hoses though, the rubber will fatigue after a few years and start to crumble in the hot tropical climate. One of my hoses may have had a pinhole fissure in it before it burst at speed and blew coolant into the whole engine bay; the whole back of the car was spewing smoke. I had hoses replaced and discovered there was a factory update on the 1999 coolant reservoir, so updated that at the same time. Has been perfect since.
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I had to replace a cracked coolant reservoir tank and it took a couple of tanks of gas worth of miles to burn off the leftover on the exhaust. I know what you mean it is kind of disconcerting after you fix it to still have the smell and your wondering if it really is fixed!
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Originally Posted by NIKAS
I had the same smell - overflow onto hot exhaust and it burns off. Check your hoses though, the rubber will fatigue after a few years and start to crumble in the hot tropical climate. One of my hoses may have had a pinhole fissure in it before it burst at speed and blew coolant into the whole engine bay; the whole back of the car was spewing smoke. I had hoses replaced and discovered there was a factory update on the 1999 coolant reservoir, so updated that at the same time. Has been perfect since.
This is what happend to me a few weeks ago. I saw smoke comming out but it was actually vapor. the hose was fine but a plastic connector broke and made a mess. I only use the car once or twice a week. Hopefully it will go away soon.
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