Check the carpet for wetness:
If you feel an oily film on the wind****eld, and you get a pungent, but
sweet
smell in the car, and the floor is wet. You'll need a heater core.
Otherwise, get a mechanic to pressure test the radiator/cooling system
with
a pressure tester, and look where the coolant/water mix is leaking from.
I hope this helps.
RK
"Need4speedchick" <alilsweetnsour18@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> So this might be hard to explain so hopefully I don't confuse anyone.
> So now that it is cold and everything I have been using my heater
> more. The other day when it snowed I of course used it but when I got
> home I noticed what I thought was smoke coming from under the hood, so
> I went to tell my dad but he said it was steam and that my car was
> over heating, he then put coolant in my car. But I don't think that is
> what it was unless my thermostat is wrong because according to that my
> car was about 208 like it usually is. Well on top of that the next
> day I started getting this smoke type smell inside my car and even
> when you get out of the car you can still smell it...but when I turned
> my heat off the smell pretty much went away. This morning when I got
> to work again the smell outside of the car and steam/smoke coming
> under the hood. I have no idea what the problem is. Does anyone have
> any suggestions or anything? Let me know please. Thanks in advance
> for your help
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