My cars leaking coolant from somewhere- I'll top it off, and within a week the low coolant light will come back on. the car isnt overheating...actually, the needle barely moves at all, not even into 'normal'. i know its not a radiator leak. but you can smell it bad sometimes inside the car, and the heat sucks- heater core, maybe?

help a girl out![]

 

If your heater core is leaking the passanger floor will be wet, check the thermostat gasket, water pump and timer cover gasket. Sounds to me like a hose might be leaking coolant onto your header and causing it to burn making the smell in the car

 

^ that sounds very well it could be a possibility. i've never had a heater core go in any of my vehicles ever. i do know there is a puddle, and one person i know told me it was wet out of his heating/air vents.

 

most likely a heater core it'll leak out the evaporator drain vent on to the exhaust

 

these seem to be a common repair on these cars. out of everyone i knew well who had one of these only one actually had to replace his. and a lot of the people i knew who had one had close to 150k. i'm sure it will probably go sometime soon on mine though just like everything else.

 

replaced mine 3 times so far!![:@]

 

now that is worse luck than mine. what were you using for aftermarket ones?

 

first one was factory original, second one was a cheap 11 dollar autozone one[:'(], 3rd one is one from ford made by valeo....it's still in there so hopefully it'll last

 

her car has about 140k on it. and it doesnt leak into the interior, that i noticed. heater core, you think?

 

my heater core just went bad in my 86 and there was no fluid on the floor...it went out the evap drain on the firewall