Smell Of Antifreeze From Heater Core

Top 10 worst things your mechanic can tell you

* "It was nothing. A wire fell off. I reattached it. No charge." * "The gas cap was loose. That's why the Check Engine light was on. It'll go off by itself." * "Oh, sure, we can clean dog puke out of the heating vents. We do that all the time."

But there are some things you never want to hear, over the phone, from your mechanic. Here's our top 10:

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1. Seized engine due to lack of oil

"The reason your engine stopped running is that it's now a melted mass of amalgamated metals. What used to be aluminum pistons, steel cylinder walls and an iron crankshaft is now a 900-pound garden sculpture. The Smithsonian wants to put it on display." Cost: $3,000 for a used engine, up to $10,000 for a re-manufactured engine.

The lowdown: A "seized" engine means that your lubrication failed (that is, you had insufficient oil or oil pressure), and the expensive moving parts of your engine scraped each other into a heated glob of useless scrap metal. Unfortunately, there's no way to fix a seized engine. Instead, the engine needs to be replaced with a used or re-manufactured engine. What happens to your old engine? A recycler will finish the melting job, and the engine will be transformed into thousands of tiny Bic lighters.

2. Hydrolocked Engine

"That 4-foot-deep puddle that you tried to cross? You sucked some of it into your engine's cylinders." Cost: $3,000 to $10,000

The lowdown: There are certain places water shouldn't be -- like inside your iPhone , on your original Matisse watercolor or inside your engine's cylinders. Normally, your engine's cylinder contains air and droplets of fuel. The air is compressible, so when the piston squeezes everything, the pressure just goes up. Water is not compressible, so when the piston tries to squeeze the water, the piston loses. Then all the expensive parts that are attached to the piston get bent or broken. Just like your bank account.

Keep Your Passengers Warm With Heater Core

Every car travels around with a little room. Compared to your rooms inside your room, a car room has little space to hold you protected from outside temperatures. Therefore, you and your passenger could have gone through the event of suffering extreme heat as you travel. Your car’s heater core plays an vital task in your cars heating system. Thus, finding the best and most appropriate heater core for your car is always your job.

In a home setting, fuels are accustomed to blow air to vent cool air into your property. Your car doesn’t do the same. As your car travel, it is already producing heat to vent air all over your car. You simply need to direct the heat from your car engine in direction of the passenger area minus the engine’s smell in addition the ability to control the total amount of heat covered to your car’s passenger’s compartment. The core heater runs this role. The coolant also picks the heat from your cars working engine that flows in direction of the heater core. This warmed coolant reproduces hot air that’s thereby being controlled by thermostat and directed towards the vents of the fans.

Whenever things go wrong inside your car’s heating system, your car’s heater core can be the culprit. So long as your engine is running and there isn’t enough coolant in your motor, nothing would prevent it from being warm. On some cases, the heater core could either be plugged or clogged, preventing the coolant to flow through the engine. The coolant within your engine might not flow correctly when the pump that pumps it towards the heater core is dented, could be because of corrosion or friction. No matter what, cold air could still blow towards the passenger’s area. When these incidences crop up, test out for corrosion. And if the pump appears to be running properly, try to flush out the heater core. This can be enough to bring things back into regular all over again.

Leak is also possible in heater core. A leakage is sometimes indicated by presence of coolant at the floor underneath your car’s carpet. Your mechanic can inspect it for you whether or not your car’s core heater had leaked or not. Simply ensure that you check your car’s heating system frequently and to look for service the minute early problem arises.

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