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Anifreeze is leaking from the same side as the resivor , car is not heating up fast there is afilm or oily feeling stuff on the passenger side floor, but the driverside floor is always real wet i have to vaccum it up once or twice a week. i also have to add antifreeze at least once a week. Today when i drove the car i left it running and when i looked under the car there was a puddle of antifreeze on the ground and a stream of it coming out from the right side front by the coolent resivor.
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Feel the water and smell it. If it smells sweet and fells oily, is is coolant. If is isn't oily and has no real smell, it is water. There is a tray under the evaporator and heater cores that catches water/coolant and drains it via a tube thru the firewall to the outside of the car. This tube is probably clogged and needs purged. If you have coolant on the floor, you'll need to replace the heater core. If it is water, purging the hose will solve the problem as the water is just condensation from the AC coils
Coolant is oil based. The oily mess in the overflow could be very old coolant. Or it could be engine oil from a leaking head gasket. The rusty stuff on the floor inside the car could be from a leaking heater core.
Hello,
If you can smell a little bit of a sweet smell from the water on the passenger side floor, or if it has an oily film to it, you may have a leaking heater core.
They usually leak on the passenger side floor, and that might explain why you hear water sloshing around.
If you can run the engine for about 5 minutes and then turn your heater on. Look under the dash in the area where the dash meets the floor board and see if you can see anything leaking.
Water is conensation from the air conditioning system. redish oil is most probably a antifreeze leak, does it look like a redish water? If so then its antifreeze toyota uses a pink/red long life anifreeze. most likley from a water pump which is right in that area
Engine coolant will feel oily and the windshield will fog up and the car will stink. If it is just water it could be coming from the passenger door weatherstrip at top. The ac drain tube , if stopped up will also leak water in the floorboard.
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